Mount an MS-DOS network drive for vintage machines with TCP
NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image.
Use it to:
Add temporary extra space to a DOS machine.
Mount your library of floppy images directly on your DOS machine.
Create a repository of utilities or files that all of your DOS machines can share.
Provide a quick and easy backup target for Xcopy or Zip.
Add hard drive-like storage to machines that don’t have a hard drive.
Easily copy files to your vintage PCs or use it as a “remote hard drive” for machines lacking one or needing more storage. A tiny memory footprint helps conserve memory. Only a network card is needed.
Also see the new Adafruit Playground note going over how to set this up here.
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