I have to work on an old computer with an old Intel 286 chip in it, running an early version of DOS.
It currently is hooked up to an old medical imaging system (takes simple b/w digital pictures of autorads and prints to thermal paper).
Currently the data is saved to floppys as .tif files, but the user wants to be able to use zip disks.
Computer case is custom-made, looks like a 1U or 2U rackmount. No other drive bays, except 1.44" floppy. Only slot (ISA, I would think) is already taken up by digital camera board.
Anyone know if it is possible to hook up an Iomega parallel zip to such an old computer?
I thought of replacing the the 1.44 floppy with an IDE zip, but I'd probably have more troubles with the motherboard BIOS and would rather not open the box.
..or.. how much of a pain is it to install a parallel port Ethernet card and try to do networking in DOS.
It currently is hooked up to an old medical imaging system (takes simple b/w digital pictures of autorads and prints to thermal paper).
Currently the data is saved to floppys as .tif files, but the user wants to be able to use zip disks.
Computer case is custom-made, looks like a 1U or 2U rackmount. No other drive bays, except 1.44" floppy. Only slot (ISA, I would think) is already taken up by digital camera board.
Anyone know if it is possible to hook up an Iomega parallel zip to such an old computer?
I thought of replacing the the 1.44 floppy with an IDE zip, but I'd probably have more troubles with the motherboard BIOS and would rather not open the box.
..or.. how much of a pain is it to install a parallel port Ethernet card and try to do networking in DOS.
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