Hi, I appreciate your respecting that my choices are tied to what my body, in this moment, allows. The speech resources for more current hardware, and or other operating systems can trigger epileptic like reactions brain wise...there are some exceptions certainly. Finding a particular older macbook pro is on my agenda, but that cannot be my main system just now even once located. The ISO slit is nice, not fully needful though, not like the cereal and USB and parallel ports for example. and yes, on the set up. One positive from all this is discovering a colleague at the centre for Social Innovation able to help with the configuration and setup. In fact he located a brand new mechanical USB keyboard I am typing on in DOS right now..built like the IBM ones in fact. On Fri, 13 Oct 2023, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Distilling your toughest requirements: - You need DOS - perhaps you would get no value from any additional OS - you would like an ISA slot.
That means the the computer has to be more than at least a decade old. Perhaps two decades (I don't remember all transitions).
I'm pretty sure we can come up with hardware that matches those requirements. But it will only become harder as time goes on.
It would be great if you could figure out how to live with current hardware. I understand that isn't easy for a variety of good reasons.
If you get such hardware, are you able to set it up?
| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| First at least a Pentium 3, I can be flexible on processor speed as I have | utilities working around some of the DOS barriers. | As much memory as possible, my previous machine had almost 800 meg of ram, | again managers made it work, even had onboard graphics memory although that is | less important.
Those DOS memory managers are quite arcane. I imagine that configuring them is mostly a lost art. DOS kind of deals with 640K of RAM, with these memory managers fudging access up to perhaps 4M of RAM.
I don't see how 800M of RAM can fit into a DOS world.
Perhaps you meant 800M of Hard Drive (but you said 20G of HDD later).
All current machines have gigabytes of RAM. Quite a different scale. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk