Yeah, but it would at least be hot swappable. You can fit a whole bunch of floppies on a single USB stick and you can switch between floppies. You are right, but as for storage solution, there is always PCMCIA ATA Flash cards (even via parallel port) and with normal USB port you are able to do much …

I'm not sure how far back you are looking to go, but PCI USB 2.0 cards can still be easily purchased. ISA was well before USB's time and I remember any cards coming out on that. The question is, what are you attempting to do in DOS with USB? If you are just looking to do easy file transfers, get a …

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-10-15, 14:40: One thing does come to mind as far as parallel port goes. You could always get a Microsolutions Backpack Parallel floppy drive and then replace the drive with a Gotek floppy emulator. Interesting idea. Though it seems like you'll be able to use only one type of …

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-10-15, 13:46: The only thing really possible out of your list is a PCMCIA USB adapter. Those do exist but unsure if there are any that will work with DOS. Probably not with All PCMCIA to USB adapters I've seen were actually CardBus adapters, so they also won't work as I …

My question is whether Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters, that work under MS-DOS exist at all? And if yes, I'll be glad to know their names. What I'm looking for actually, is a way to add USB port to old hardware with Serial/Parallel/SCSI/PCMCIA …

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-08-27, 08:29: There are still a few downloads available on the Danmere archive - not sure if any are what you need https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.danm … re.com:80/ftp/* Yes, it looks like being the archived version of a software I was looking for. Thank you …

Looking for Danmere Backer 32 VHS Back Up System Windows 3.1 drivers diskette image. I'd highly appreciate if someone could share it. Thanks in advance.

The video I had in mind was the Building a 4 in 1 Retro Gaming PC video featuring a AMD K6-III+ and the SetMul and K6SPEED utilities. The benefit with these utilities is that you get better speed control than just using L1 and L2 cache on the Pentium (which can be controlled using https://www. …

Ok, so my suspicions were unfounded. Those DOS retro PCs are such a headache. For months was looking for external 5.25" FDD via LPT to attach it to my Thinkpad just to find out that the only real option is MicroSolutions Backpack drives, which are rare as a Yeti and expensive as a whole PC unit with …

I would imagine all socket 7 boards support two floppy drives, all on the same cable. Support for more than one started to be removed in P4 systems and later. Here for example [ https://www.gigabyte.com/il/Motherboard/GA-586HX/sp#sp ] is written: "I/O Controller ... 1x Floppy port (360KB-2.88MB) …

Planning to build / buy (1-2-3...n) in one DOS machine based on Pentium 133/166 MMX that will allow me to run 286-386-486 programs/games in addition to Pentium 1 ones, and also wishing to have both 3.5" & 5.25" drives. Any suggestions regarding right choice of motherboard that will support this …