Comment on Packard Bell Legend 730
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
NetBSD (i386) should run fine on that box.
I’m curious how well CDDA (you may need to compile it from source) runs on that.
Comment on Packard Bell Legend 730
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
NetBSD (i386) should run fine on that box.
I’m curious how well CDDA (you may need to compile it from source) runs on that.
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can try it out once i learn how to use this thing. I’m gonna have to get a usb floppy reader/writer to copy stuff from a modern computer.
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
If you need a hand with anything this era of computers was what I learned on. So feel free to msg me.
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right now the challenge is to get data off of my 5.25" floppy disks. Online shops are full of 3.5" to usb readers, but nothing for 5.25".
The reader in the computer still works.
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
Oh the serial idea sounds like fun. You would need a null modem cable for that. A regular non-crossover serial cable typically won’t work.
You could use ZMODEM for that.
There are adapters out there to connect some floppy drives to a modern computer but they tend to be expensive or difficult.
Alternately, you could just copy the large floppies to the smaller kind. Then use a more common usb floppy drive for that.
If you could get a ISA ethernet card into that box, you could setup networking and transfer that way.