• Testing

    From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to All on Tue Jan 25 15:10:00 2022
    This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and ended up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system disks for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation device on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

    Hope you are all doing well!

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Andeddu on Tue Jan 25 20:51:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to All on Tue Jan 25 2022 08:10 pm

    This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and end up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system di for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation devi on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

    Hope you are all doing well!

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy
    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial
    is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 16:13:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

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  • From Lux@VERT/T0KERZ to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 19:02:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

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  • From Lux@VERT/T0KERZ to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 19:10:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.
    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

    I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img.
    The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS you can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

    Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 01:55:00 2022
    Moondog wrote to Andeddu <=-

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 27 08:24:00 2022
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
    A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

    I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Thu Jan 27 18:28:00 2022
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 27 2022 01:24 pm

    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
    A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

    I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.


    then one disk was bad!
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Andeddu on Sat Jan 29 09:23:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary d is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than t device I am currently using.

    Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features. Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
    I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy
    would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Lux on Sat Jan 29 09:31:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Lux to Andeddu on Thu Jan 27 2022 12:10 am

    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotar

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.
    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper tha the device I am currently using.

    I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img. The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS y can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

    Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D


    Another option you can try is finding a stand alone IDE controller with it's own BIOs configuration. You would go in your motherboard BIOS, and shut off the hard drives. When the pc boots, a prompt will pop up from the controller card asking to press a key to set up, then show which drives it detects.
    That is how the SCSI drives used to connect. You might be able to get away with a CF-IDE adapter with an IDE card

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Sun Jan 30 20:30:00 2022
    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Sat Jan 29 2022 02:23 pm

    Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features.
    Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
    I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

    Cheers, I'll look into it. I have been interested in floppy disk emulators as floppy disk drives themselves are fragile and don't tend to survive long periods in storage. I have a bunch with damaged mechanisms and broken gears that require a lot of TLC which can be time consuming.

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  • From Charon@VERT/RIVERSTY to All on Wed May 17 21:32:00 2023
    Good evening!

    Testing out the sub.

    Charon

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  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to Charon on Wed May 17 19:07:00 2023
    On 17 May 2023, Charon said the following...

    Testing out the sub.

    Looks pretty darn good to me, nes-pa?


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to CHARON on Thu May 18 18:18:00 2023
    Good evening!

    Testing out the sub.

    Charon

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    Looks like maybe your origin line is missing?


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  • From Luis Silva@VERT/MSMACBBS to all on Fri Aug 11 19:16:06 2023
    Hi Everyone

    Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
    Testing

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  • From Ewing@VERT/MORTAL to Luis Silva on Sat Aug 12 11:49:52 2023
    Re: Testing
    By: Luis Silva to all on Fri Aug 11 2023 07:16 pm

    Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
    Testing

    Got you here in Australia :)

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  • From Luis Silva@VERT/MSMACBBS to Ewing on Sat Aug 12 14:06:47 2023
    Txs for the reply

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