Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] ZIP in DOS

I had the similar problem as Bob Campbell, how to get gcode from Win98 machine to DOS only box. I bought a rebuilt internal ZIP from
Fry's in Arlington, Tex. (pay attention Bob Campbell). Called Iomega, downloaded their DOS drivers onto a floppy and installed it
into my dos box. The only problem that I have is that it doesn't permanently assign the drive, so that every time I boot up it takes
a minute to assign the drive, but after that minute, it works like a champ. At $59 it was cheaper that CDs, 120meg floppies or
trying to fool with a network card (which may be cheaper since many slower network cards can be had for $20 or less, but due to the
mixture of operating system and required wiring, is a pain in the ass)

Mike Rainone

joe wrote:

> I could not get an Iomega ZIP Drive to work in my machine until I
> installed WIN98 2nd edition.
> Find someone who has sucessfully installed this hardware on a dos
> machine, or keep your receipt. I don't think Iomega is supporting
> anything but the newest operating systems.
>
> I am going to get me some removable hard drive bays (12-16 bucks
> each). This may be a cheap way to transfer large amounts of data to an
> old machine (without a network).
> There may be an issue with the FAT communicating between 16 and 32 I
> don't know. ( I would bring everything up to FAT32 anyway) But I have
> about four 250-500mb hard drives laying around that nobody would give
> you spit for.
> As long as you are doing internal file transfer and not accepting
> disks from a customer or something like that.
> One possible Solution.
>
> I'm Spent.
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