[Swansea Hackspace] Floppys

Alan Cox alan at llwyncelyn.cymru
Tue Jul 10 00:56:05 BST 2018


On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 14:52:00 +0100
Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a pc repair place in the market that has LOADS
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, 14:45 Gwion Davies, <gwiondavies at live.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any floppy disks & a usb floppy drive that they can bring
> > along this evening?
> >
> > I’m going to attempt to set up a 90s pc with MSDOS or FreeDOS and see if
> > we can have some fun with it.

You can install FreeDOS from CD-ROM on many systems.

I've got a couple of USB floppy drives but to use them to install or run
MSDOS you must have the right BIOS support to use them.

Alan




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