... the neglected blog of
Larry Olin Horn.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I've posted here is strictly my personal (probably ill-formed) opinion and should not be construed as representing any other person's or entity's views or positions on anything.
I sometimes have to deal with laptop hard disks, either transferring contents to a new disk, diagnosing problems, or repairing file structures.
For several years I’ve used an IDE adapter a friend gave me. I don’t remember the circumstances, just that he happened to have it with him and I needed one right away. [...]
It’s funny what you can find in the back of a closet. I think this Zenith ZFL-181-93 was my first laptop. It can still boot from both the DOS and Minix diskettes — not bad for a nearly 20-year-old machine. Next? Probably a Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo).
Flickr set: Zenith [...]
