Post AsO2LuBslhSZo2Zlqa by gregly@retro.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AsMjvqEerITjg2KvL6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-24T02:34:09Z
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Bad idea: boot a diskless (no floppy or HD) 5150 into DOS.How? No, not the cassette port. The only other port. The keyboard!We make a PC/XT protocol keyboard that writes a small stub and then copies DOS into RAM (with a ramdisk, natch) through the keyboard port.
(DIR) Post #AsMkOhKt1fSATQ0evI by cr1901@mastodon.social
2025-03-24T02:39:17Z
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@foone AFAIK, only the XT BIOS has the test code still active for keyboard port upload: https://www.reenigne.org/xtserver/Or do you have something that doesn't use the BIOS in mind?
(DIR) Post #AsMkX6sZwKyO0mmQGu by huronbikes@cyberplace.social
2025-03-24T02:40:50Z
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@foone I would love to see this in action. Makes me wish I still had my 5150.
(DIR) Post #AsMltAGA9V7gowtL04 by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-24T02:56:02Z
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@cr1901 no, I mean a device that acts like a keyboard, and types in a BASIC program to start the upload, using its own code
(DIR) Post #AsMpjw0QB6oDp7Nnm4 by bmartin427@techhub.social
2025-03-24T03:39:07Z
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@foone why do you need a Disk Operating System if you have no disks?
(DIR) Post #AsMvB8rmyBTfIf8cRE by skquinn@toot.community
2025-03-24T04:40:02Z
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@foone Very creative, even if technically a "bad idea" in the truest sense of the words.
(DIR) Post #AsNIE5Xs4Y8yoWCBxg by foone@digipres.club
2025-03-24T08:58:19Z
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@Mpwg I've never seen an ethernet/keyboard adapter!
(DIR) Post #AsNQptcpddAyTx3TZQ by gabe@mendeddrum.org
2025-03-24T10:34:44Z
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@foone @Mpwg check your bottom desk drawer, just in case you built one?
(DIR) Post #AsNVwnNxjfmOvZD2Dg by vxo@digipres.club
2025-03-24T11:32:02Z
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@foone @cr1901 oh my glob. bios duckie.
(DIR) Post #AsO2LuBslhSZo2Zlqa by gregly@retro.pizza
2025-03-24T17:35:04Z
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@foone Big ADTPro energy