On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:17:53PM -0500, Thomas Taylor wrote: > Hi All: > > I've got an old 486 computer (Dolch PAC). It's what was called a > semi-portable computer - requires AC power. It's housed in a ruggedized case > and the only media it can use is a built-in floppy drive. It has two serial > ports (mouse is on one) and a parallel port. It also has a network port, > supposedly 10 MHz, but I haven't been able to get it working. The bus > structure is ISA with room for two cards. > > It currently has Windbloze 95 on it. I would like to replace that with FC4 > but don't have a way to do it currently. I was thinking of getting one of > the CD-ROM external devices that uses the parallel port for communication > (called a backpack originally). There are a couple of these on ebay but I'm > not sure if it would work as the BIOS doesn't allow booting from anything > except the floppy or hard drive. > > Anyone got a suggestion? tomsrtbt. http://www.toms.net/rb -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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