[Freedos-user] [OT] Videoconference references

I mentioned these historic examples. The first describes a hydraulic analog computer. {The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer), also the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, was created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips to model the national

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

Thanks, Paul: gemini://geminispace.info/search?freedos There is a search "button" in top where you can enter term you care about. Here I have given the term "Freedos" to search. I'm using amfora in a terminal window. -- My old iiNet address will die 2 October! Instead, send to my new addres

[Freedos-user] Please update your address record

Note the following. -- This old iiNet address will end 2 October! Please update your record with my new address, "br...@exemail.com.au". ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freed

Re: [Freedos-user] Planning the next virtual get-together

Thanks, Jim: We'll plan the next virtual get-together for Sunday, September 24. For me that will be 2 AM Monday. I expect to attend. -- This iiNet address won't last! I have joined Exetel. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforg

Re: [Freedos-user] REMINDER: FreeDOS virtual get-together is tomorrow

Thanks, Jim: Plan for our FreeDOS virtual get-together for NEXT SUNDAY, August 27 at 11am US/Central. For me, then will be 2 AM Monday 28 August. (Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.) That's Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). We usually alternate topics ev

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

Thanks, Paul: I recently learn of the Gemini protocol. I apologise for slowness getting-around-to my e-Mail Inbox contents. Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online collection of written document

Re: [Freedos-user] My curiosity

Yes, Dan: Tasks that could be completed in seconds now take minutes in Windows. This is a major cause of physician burn-out with electronic health records. I hated Aussie social security. It required using a Web form. That was very complex. I found it infuriating! https://www.servicesaustr

Re: [Freedos-user] My curiosity

Hey Dan: That's great info! I glad to see so many getting use ouf of old hardware. I, myself, have a whole load of old hardware. If it still works, or can be made to work, there's no need to chuck it! In particular I have a T40 and, perhaps more interesting, A Compaq Portable III. Get them

Re: [Freedos-user] USB serial & DOSBox

Yes, Louis: Very cool! In my Ubuntu Home directory is the hidden directory ".dosbox". And within that, is the latest-version configuration file "dosbox-0.74-3.conf". At the end of that, I have edited a section thus. {[autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # Belkin F5U409 Se

Re: [Freedos-user] USB serial & DOSBox

Yay, Louis: It should be at `/dev/ttyUSB0` and you should refer to realport `ttyUSB0` or something like that (`serial1=directserial realport:ttyUSB0`). Yes, I found that character device. lsusb lists the following. {Bus 001 Device 005: ID 050d:0109 Belkin Components F5U109/F5U409 PDA Adapt

[Freedos-user] USB serial & DOSBox

My heart monitor is an old Polar Sport Tester 4000. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1393035/Polar-Electro-Sport-Testert.html Its interface box has an RS2323 socket. I had been downloading data to an old PC with a serial port. That PC runs FreeDOS. VER/R reports "DOS version 7.10". My Ubuntu

Re: [Freedos-user] My curiosity

Hi Dan: What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or something else? I have an ancient heart rate monitor. Its computer interface uses DOS software via a serial port! -- members.iinet.net.au/~k

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos

Hi Rahim: Whats The main Diference between freedos and dos. FreeDOS is more modernised, with extended functions. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/list

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed By Means Of UNIX Commands?

G'day, Jay: Microsoft Windows is installed on three primary partitions, because that is what Windows does, and every other operating system on this computer must find a home for itself within the logical partitions carved out of the fourth, extended partition. Ugh! The installation procedure