> On May 18, 2023, at 3:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> My advice: buy an old desktop computer. Buy a standard PC floppy drive (a >> dual drive if possible to give both 3.5 and 5.25 support). > > Hmmm. > a modern laptop for connecting to the interwebs. > with sneaker-net of thumb drives to: > a 386 desktop running Win98SE (first version to support USB), with floppy > drives. That would work but it doesn't need to be quite that old. My floppy-writing machine is a Gateway Pentium machine, with Ethernet, running Linux. So when I need stuff transferred I just scp it to that machine, then run whatever tool I need to do the transfer (rstsflx or dd, depending on what I'm manipulating). paul
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