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Re: Dumpster diving pays off (no, really!)

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From: Joubert John V.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 01:50
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	David, I have seen the method of booting from floppy, and justpopping
over to the hard drive used in older computers.  The company I used to work
for had an old Corona PC with older bioses, this was fixed with an Everex
hard drive controller card ( I don't know which one ), and a driver loaded
from dos that would allow the user to go to the hard drive.

	I am sorry, I can't get exact part numbers anymore etc., they sod
the machine.  I would try calling Everex ( I don't know the number either,
but call 1-800-555-1212 for 800 information) and trying to get their card
that handles this.  Unless you go the hardcard route, you'll need a controller
card anyway.  I seriously doubt that any patch program like this would exist
for a hard card device.  As for as changing your bios chips... this is a very,
very, simple operation.  If you go to your nearest pc user group I am sure
that you could find someone that could help you.  They may even let you bring
the thing there, and your dumpster-orphan could the evenings' demonstration
(Sounds like an interesting thing to me).


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From: pabres13@pc.usl.edu (Joubert John V.)
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Subject: Re: Dumpster diving pays off (no, really!)
Keywords: Boot from floppy, then over to hd
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