Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/09/11 02:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it hasn't already

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:01:19 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hi Walter, > > Walter Hurry wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. >> > http://www.virtualbox.org/ >> >> Bob, >> >> Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, on

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Walter, Walter Hurry wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > Bob, > > Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, one suspects that > these are old DOS games. If that's the case, woul

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:58:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ Bob, Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, one suspects that these are old DOS games. If that's the case, would not Do

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I can probably find a small enough Linux Live CD system to boot on it and > use the sshfs or NFS o copy the entire hard drive over the ethernet > connection. But recommendations would be very welcome. Personally since I am a hardware type of guy I would pull the hard disk

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:31:17 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard > drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet > PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) > The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm sur

Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it hasn't already. It runs an ancient Windows system, p