Comments on: Shortcut to Booting MS-DOS on the Compaq IA-1 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51 The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine Tue, 22 May 2012 09:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Shortcut to Booting MS-DOS on the Compaq IA-1 by: Scott Stevens http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-16688 Fri, 22 May 2009 02:47:10 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-16688 Suggestion for making Compact Flash cards bootable: You can buy small adapters for Compact Flash that turn them into standard IDE drives. It's a mostly-just-traces board with a 40 pin IDE connector (or 44-pin IDE versions for internal Laptop Drive use). These are commonly available on eBay and turn a compact flash drive, as far as the PC is concerned, into a regular IDE drive. Then just plug the IDE cable from a PC into it, boot from a floppy disk, format /s the compact flash card. These are really inexpensive adapters from Hong Kong resellers on eBay, in the neighborhood of $3 each. Suggestion for making Compact Flash cards bootable:

You can buy small adapters for Compact Flash that turn them into standard IDE drives. It's a mostly-just-traces board with a 40 pin IDE connector (or 44-pin IDE versions for internal Laptop Drive use). These are commonly available on eBay and turn a compact flash drive, as far as the PC is concerned, into a regular IDE drive. Then just plug the IDE cable from a PC into it, boot from a floppy disk, format /s the compact flash card.

These are really inexpensive adapters from Hong Kong resellers on eBay, in the neighborhood of $3 each.

]]> Comment on Shortcut to Booting MS-DOS on the Compaq IA-1 by: RedWolf http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-630 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:04:51 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-630 I'm not quite sure where the original page for it is, but I have a copy of it for download here in this zip file (the link is also in the article): http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/files/ia1/Compaq_IA-1_DOS_Kit.zip If you really, really want me to find the original page it came from, let me know and I'll try to hunt it down for you. I'm not quite sure where the original page for it is, but I have a copy of it for download here in this zip file (the link is also in the article):

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/files/ia1/Compaq_IA-1_DOS_Kit.zip

If you really, really want me to find the original page it came from, let me know and I'll try to hunt it down for you.

]]> Comment on Shortcut to Booting MS-DOS on the Compaq IA-1 by: Richard Milward http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-614 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:46:17 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/51#comment-614 Where exactly did you find that "freely-distributable program from HP... to format their Disk-On-Key USB JumpDrives... to make them bootable"? I haven't been able to locate it. TIA! --Richard Where exactly did you find that "freely-distributable program from HP… to format their Disk-On-Key USB JumpDrives… to make them bootable"? I haven't been able to locate it. TIA! –Richard

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