Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Wed Feb 1 02:46:52 UTC 2006
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?
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