Impossible Umbrella :donor: :tux: :vim: on Nostr: After finding I couldn’t download a copy of any #dos #assembly programming books ...
After finding I couldn’t download a copy of any #dos #assembly programming books from npub1xrj3t052eyqclk39m85tvffsge35zr3kedkmsf8l6dheq8zrt8rs589q43 (npub1xrj…9q43) (they are only available to loan for whatever reason), I managed to track down a dead tree copy of this book (“Assembly Language for the PC” [3rd edition] - by John Socha & Peter Norton), which arrived in the mail today.
It even had the original floppy disk with it - containing all of the example code. But there my luck ran out. The disk is a 720k DD floppy - and my USB floppy disk drive (at least on my Mac, I’ve not tried any of my Linux boxes yet…) couldn’t read it - and a Win98 VM didn’t have any drivers for the USB drive. I do have an ancient DOS laptop which *was* able to read it (and confirmed it’s good), but short of rigging up some kind of USB serial to DB9 serial and running ZModem or some kind of serial file transfer tools - I don’t know how to get the files from that machine to anywhere I might want to archive the files.
Any ideas?
#retrocomputers
It even had the original floppy disk with it - containing all of the example code. But there my luck ran out. The disk is a 720k DD floppy - and my USB floppy disk drive (at least on my Mac, I’ve not tried any of my Linux boxes yet…) couldn’t read it - and a Win98 VM didn’t have any drivers for the USB drive. I do have an ancient DOS laptop which *was* able to read it (and confirmed it’s good), but short of rigging up some kind of USB serial to DB9 serial and running ZModem or some kind of serial file transfer tools - I don’t know how to get the files from that machine to anywhere I might want to archive the files.
Any ideas?
#retrocomputers