[arachne] Re: PTS DOS 2000 Pro
- From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:21:40 -0400
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 08:58 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:13 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> > The emulation with XTCE is really good in that you can pretend that you
> > are running an XT machine with two floppy drives, A: and B:. Whether
> > you want to pretend to be using DSDD 5.25" floppies or HD 1.2 MB
> > 5.25" floppies or 720K or 1.44 MB 3.5" inch floppies is user-selectable.
>
> With the downside that you can't put real disks into those pretend
> drives.
>
> > As a bonus you can even pretend to have a hard drive C:, and you can
> > C:\DOS\RUN. The downside is that you first have to upload your DOS
> > stuff to a Windows machine and then download it to your palmtop Windows
> > CE device by using your serial data cable and your connectivity
> > software.
>
> Hmmm... it all sounds it bit weird to me. Kinda like those virtual
> reality games that are supposed to replace real life....
>
>
> Regards from Greg Mayman in Adelaide, South Australia
> 35d 01'44" S 138d 32'13" E
>
What if reality were everything it is cracked up to be?
Sam Heywood
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