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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minimal PC Minix hardware
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.143126.11475@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 28 Jan 91 14:31:26 GMT
References: <6985@crash.cts.com> <1991Jan27.170806.55@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <1991Jan27.170806.55@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:

>As quoted from <6985@crash.cts.com> by cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose):
>+---------------
>|                                you will need a 1.2MB or (better) 1.44MB
>| drive for backup.
>+---------------

>The 360K drive is dead?  My XT clone is out of slots, so I can't just drop a
>1.2MB controller in.  (Not to mention that there seems to be no way to disable
>the motherboard floppy controller.)

Minix still runs (slowly) on my AT&T PC6300 with 360K drives.  I have
only backed up my 15Mb onto floppies once, though, and I nearly had to
use every floppy I own :-(

>++Brandon

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