@larand I am calling it the Flintstone Rescue Pod.
Ima do dis!
@larand Easier to ship and doesn't require a damned AT keyboard. Since the recovery tools will be console based, the prime Linux irritant will be eliminated.
Inject DOS client via serial or generate a floppy. Machine can then connect to DOS system, grab data and ftp it straight to me.
And I don't have to go near a airport
@larand Im thinking this thing with a db25 port, running Linux and with a LapLink solution of my own (And a DOS counterpart) is a better option.
@phoneboy And you have that knowledge in the back of your head that the people who assembled the hardware decades ago had no idea of the weird stuff you are making it do.
@phoneboy …what made it harder is that I refused at the outset to use a protected mode DOS extender. Fun stuff but it makes your brain hurt after a while :D
@phoneboy Was trying to find a photo I posted of the DOS box I was developing APP.EXE on telnetted into a Linux box and running texapp but app.net is being impossible to deal with right now. Has a NIC with PKDRV working and functional TCP-IP networking.
The hardest part of the APP.EXE thing was https and massive chunks of JSON on a system that can only address 64K at a time.
The solution was being ported over from some image editing and analysis stuff I did years ago. Utilizes XMS and a scrolling 64K window through it.