[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> 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