It's only 64-bit versions of (x86) Windows that don't come with EDLIN installed.
Also, in Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, you need to install NTVDM separately in order to run EDLIN. Typing the command for the first time brings up a Windows Troubleshooter Wizard to do just that for you.
Every version of MS-DOS came with EDLIN.
Every 16-bit version of Windows let you run EDLIN via the underlying MS-DOS.
Every 32-bit version of Windows from the first RTM of Windows 95 right through to the current version of Windows 10 came with EDLIN.
The cutest luggable PC I've seen in a very long time: the Osborne Vixen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Vixen
Every evening the cat came, and every evening the poor artist would sketch or paint feverishly in the dimming light.
The cat would be still as a statue, until the artist was done - image completed or not. The incomplete images were always somehow completed by dawn.
The artist eventually sold the collection, then purchased a rare dried fish, feeding it to the cat and breaking the curse.
She cried, relieved to have her wife back.
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The genius engineering of the 3.5 inch floppy disk 💾:
https://youtu.be/tJCMzdzh4Tw
SpeedStor detected the controller but told me absolutely nothing about it. The other debug commands didn't work. But this one did:
A>debug
-g=c800:6
1701-B
"G=C800:6" printed the POST error code. Matches Scientific Micro Systems, OMTI, & Adaptec?
I still don't have any idea what basic kind of HDD to pair this mystery controller up with. #vintagecomputers & #vintagecomputing folks, any help is appreciated.
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working past that mental block and working on some dither patterns oh yeah 💪😤
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I still want someone to make USB floppy drives that can read & write MF2DD floppies reliably AND USB floppy drives that can read & write DSDD & DSHD floppies in all the most common formats.
I still want someone to make new 3-1/2 (90mm) AND 5-1/4 (135mm) floppies, too!
What I tried so far:
> debug
-> G=C800:5
-> G=C800:800
-> G=C800:CCC
-> G=C800:5
-> G=C800:6
What I haven't tried yet:
> SpeedStor http://minuszerodegrees.net/software/speedstor.htm
> Other debug commands https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/060/Q60089/
There's no HDD attached. I have to figure out what the controller is & supports before sourcing a disk.
Anyone who knows rare add-ons for #vintagecomputers, can you point me to the manual for this? It's a Mountain Computer part number 05-04031-02 that came in a HDD-less IBM 5160 (PC-XT) I rescued. I can't tell if it's an MFM, RLL, or ESDI controller or what the jumpers do.
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