OT'ish: What is the oldest component you still have in regular use in asystem?

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Oh, and I just threw out an old Sony CD-ROM drive with a CD Caddy! It
won't run on an IDE channel - proprietary controller! Gawd, that thing
really sucks. 2x man, 2x!


---Atreju---
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SCSI ? I had a (name forgotten) sound card that had a little scsi
controller on it for the 2x Nec CDrom. Good sound card, CD was too
slow ;) Caddy was a pain.
 
As far as data transfer to a new PC, your new system may recognize the old
hard drive, IF it is an IDE drive, then you could just copy the contents.
You may have trouble running Ghost on it, but back in the day I used Laplink
and serial cable with great success-that may be your best bet. I think
there are even shareware versions of it somewhere.

--Dan
 
subject. I have a system that was put together in 1991. Here are the
specs to the best of my knowledge:

1. 386 - I "believe" it's 33mhz.... but I'm not 100% sure.
2. 400mb hard drive. "Original" hard drive was 40mb.
3. Operating System: DOS No GUI...Does not even have Windows 3.1
on it.
4. 5 1/4" Floppy Drive ( It still works )
5. 3 1/2" Floppy Drive ( I added this drive in 1993 )
6. 16mb of ram. I upgraded it from 4mb. (try running any version of
Windows on 4mb of ram today!


If anyone reading this has any suggestions on how to transfer (clone)
the hard drive I would appreciate it. Back in 1991 I paid someone to
transfer the data from a 40mb drive to the 400mb drive and it was
rather expensive as I recall.
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If the old 400 MB HDD is IDE (seems likely, given the size), it's as
simple as XCOPY. Install both the old and new drives in your computer
and copy away. You'll need to SYS the new drive if you plan to boot
from it.

Better yet, use Ghost or a similar utility to clone your HDD. Chances
are, your new HDD will include such a utility or you may be able to
download it free from the vendor's web page.

If for some reason you can't host both drives in the same system, use
the DOS v6.x INTERLNK/INTERSVR utility or a third-party solution such as
Laplink. You will need a special serial or parallel cable, and this
procedure _will be_ the slowest option of the three.
 
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