Best products from r/DOS
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1. CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (B Plus) with Premium Clear Case and 2.5A Power Supply
- Includes Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (B plus) with 1.4 GHz 64-bit Quad-Core Processor and 1 GB RAM
- CanaKit 2.5A USB Power Supply with Micro USB Cable and Noise Filter - Specially designed for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (UL Listed)
- Dual band 2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless LAN, Enhanced Ethernet Capability
- Premium Clear Case, Set of 2 Aluminum Heat Sinks
- CanaKit Quick-Start Guide
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2. TP-LINK TL-PoE150S PoE Injector Adapter, IEEE 802.3af compliant, up to 100 meters (325 Feet),Gigabit -10/100/1000,Black
- 【Convert Non-PoE to PoE】With no need to replace your existing non-PoE switch/device, you can easily have PoE enabled with the use of TL-PoE150S
- 【High Speed Gigabit Ports】Experience lightning-fast wired speeds with 1× Gigabit Ethernet Input Port + 1× Gigabit Ethernet Output port
- 【802.3af PoE Compliant 】TL-PoE150S supplies power and data via one single ethernet cable to 802.3af PoE devices and expands network to areas with no power lines or outlets
- 【Plug and Play Installation】Easy setup with no software installation or configuration needed
- 【Long Range Transmission】Deliver Power up to 100 meters (328ft.), perfect for IP cameras or access point deployment in large areas
- 【Auto Detect Power】With Auto Detect technology, TL-PoE150S determines and delivers the exact power supply to your devices wiith up to 15.4W power output.
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3. SHINESTAR SD Card to 2.5 Inch IDE Adapter, SDHC SDXC MMC Memory Card Converter to Laptop HDD 44 Pin Male PATA Port
- This listing includes 2 Lift Supports For the Hood.
- Extended Length from Center Mount to Center Mount is 26.38 in.
- Strong Arm supports use standards of high quality you can trust and use with confidence, they install easily in minutes, often times without special tools required.
- Easy to install with simple hand tools in just minutes.
- Compatible with the following OEM Numbers: 5344006091, 53440-06091, 5345006080, 53450-06080, 5345006081, 53450-06081, 6757
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George R. R. Martin
writesused to write on an original DOS PC with a monochromatic display. I guess now he uses Wordstar 4.0 on a DOS emulator due to his 30+ year old museum piece failing on him.If you read George R. R. Martin's blog or follow him at all, you'll see he is an easily distracted individual. Football, side projects, and all number of other things keeps him from writing, so he has devised a way to focus on his writing while eliminating these distractions. He sits in his personal library in front of a(n)
ancientrelatively modern PC running Dosbox, but like his old retro machine he's not connected to the Internet. He doesn't have his phone with him. He can't check scores to see if the Giants are winning and he can't binge Netflix or listen to Pandora. It's just him, and the keyboard.You can put DOSBox on your regular modern PC and see if that works out for you, if you can resist the temptation to Alt-Tab over to Reddit. You can get DOSBox for your phone if you feel so inclined and run it there. Some newer Samsung devices even have a Desktop kind of mode where you hook it up to a monitor and turn it into a desktop kind of experience. You can get yourself a Raspberry Pi computer kit, install RetroPie and build a tiny DOS emulator workstation this way with a spare monitor and USB keyboard, preferably away from other distracting influences in your life.
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Alternatively, if you're a little crazy (Like some of us here.) you can go scour the thrift stores, Ebay, yard sales, attic, and dumpsters in search of original hardware, and build yourself an entire pre-Internet 1980s style DOS workstation. Of course then if you are in search of distraction free writing you'll have to avoid the temptation to just play a bunch of Commander Keen on it.
Hi, if not a PCI slot, maybe ISA? If you really want to gwt this working you might unplug the sound card (however, being this old, maybe it only comes with an Internal speaker?)
For ISA devices there's:
-NE2000
Once you managed to get an Ethernet Card working, than the Job is done. At this point if you had a raspberry you would use it as Wifi to Ethernet Bridge adapter or simply buy a Bridge Adapter like this. In this way you'd be able to fast-connect to any wfi network with DOS (I do so)
Otherwise you can Remote-Band connect to your telephone line using a RJ-11 port, through a dial-up modem
You will need a dial-up ISP account, an analogue phone, a dial-up Modem and a RJ-11 cable...all oh which are not so obvious these days(.....this reminds of my childhood spent hacking with a 28 Kb/s connection)
If you got everything, then you'll may want to give a look to this page to start understanding how to dial-up connection works in MS-DOS
If no one of these is viable/bearable, then there's Spider_Gilgamesh' solution, using a USB to Serial adapter and configuring again Rpi to act as modem. I think it's theoretically correct don't see why it shouldn't work, so why do not you ask him whether he's put that solution in practice for real or not? and maybe ask for a walkthrough ;)
Honestly the cheapest and easiest way to transfer small files is to just get a USB 3.5" floppy drive and some blank disks. They're both still fairly inexpensive.
More expensive and complicated would be to find a couple old Zip drives (Zip was the brand name, they have nothing to do with .zip archives) that still work and transfer files with 100mb Zip disks. You'd need a parallel port model for your DOS laptop and a USB model for your modern machine, but once set up it should work for transferring larger files and programs.
Option 3 is cheap but might be complicated depending on how easy your laptop's hard drive is to get to: replace the hard drive with a 2.5" IDE to SD card adapter. You could just copy whatever you want to it on a modern machine then move it to the laptop.