My dad uses an old Leading Edge computer with 2 floppy drives, and he damaged his 5 1/4 DOS disk. He is devastated because without the DOS disk, you cannot boot up the computer. He loves using this computer. None of my friends have 5 1/4 computer stuff anymore, and I can't find a store that still sells it. Where can I get one now? Any suggestions? Does anyone have one gathering dust?
Please don't suggest that he buy a new computer. He has a new computer with Word, but he likes the word processing better on the Leading Edge.
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posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 11:06p
jolma
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posted: Oct. 17, 2009 @ 12:50a
eBay has several 5.25 version of DOS if you search for DOS floppy. As long as you don't need a proprietary one. But that won't include a word processor other than edit, unless it has one in ROM memory or he has another disk with a word processor.
jolma said: eBay has several 5.25 version of DOS if you search for DOS floppy. As long as you don't need a proprietary one. But that won't include a word processor other than edit, unless it has one in ROM memory or he has another disk with a word processor.All the software seems available http://www.google.com/search?q=Leading+Edge+computer&sourceid=ie... If the PC has a serial or parallel interfaces maight consider an USB adapter.
Can you switch his computer to 3.5" floppies? If you cover the second hole in a 1.44M disk with opaque tape, it becomes low density, and then it can be treated as a 360K disk in BIOS setup.
If the system has a high density floppy drive + hard drive, then finding DOS is fairly easy as there are even free alternatives. On the other hand if that machine has only low density floppy drives + no hard disk, you most likely require DOS 3.x on 5.25" 360k floppies. Other than eBay, you might also try various forsale forums like Craigslist, Anandtech, or Arstechnica.
WLABOB
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posted: Oct. 17, 2009 @ 4:30p
Thank you for the suggestions. I will check into each of them. If you have any others, please let me know.
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