January 14, 2010
Recognize that thing? It's a USB diskette reader.
My dad and I were trying to figure out how to upgrade the BIOS in my computer. It could only be done by running a DOS program - they're still around. XP can even format a floppy disk as a MS-DOS boot disk. (I wonder if Windows 7 retained this functionality.)
Anyway, the experiment with floppies didn't work. We figured it out another way eventually, and my computer starts up closer to normal now. Yay!
You still have those disk thingys??
ReplyDeleteWe use DOS programs to do some random biology stats. it's rather cute.