Booting a 1988 XT PC machine from USB!

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Hello guys and welcome to Electrohoard!
In this video I will show you how to get XT Class PC Machines (IBM or Clones) to boot from a USB Flash Drive, so you can replace those old MFM hard drives with something more reliable and much more practical.
By using this solution, you could just get the USB Flash drive on a modern PC to exchange files between your XT machine and modern PCs.
You can find the files used in the video on public domain, here’s the link:
www.toughdev.com/content/2018...

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26 ноя 2023

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@ayan.debnath 6 месяцев назад

Keep up the great work. This solution can be the cheaper and simpler solution than XT-IDE

@electrohoard 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!!! Yes, this solution is simpler, cheaper and to me more convenient cause I can just unplug the usb flash drive and instantly be able to modify the whole C: drive of my XT without having to use CF card readers and adapters.

@markae0 7 месяцев назад

Floppy drives were extremely reliable before the Windows OS. The problem is identifying the different types ( 360, 720, 1.4 single side, double side, layers) and modern OS of Windows needing to write on old drives. The last time accessed MUST be written says the Win OS and it can destroy the old disk when it writes. In the olden DOS days , the last time the file was accessed was NOT constantly written. If you have any old floppy disks do not run them on Windows due to the last access write.

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

I didnt know that. I also believe floppies got so unreliable right now because most of them are ate least 20 yo. I had no idea Windows introduced this constant time writing thing.

@JohnSmith-iu8cj 7 месяцев назад

Great Video! I always wanted to get a Xtide for my 286, but now I might consider this. Didn’t know I was already subbed, I had watched the smallest A4 printer video. Keep it going!

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for the kind comment! I’ll make a follow up video because I gor some requests on how to make the 512MB partition with MS-DOS. That should help you too to get this going very easily.

@joed527 7 месяцев назад

This was neat to watch

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

I’m glad you liked it :) Thanks for watching!

@MotownBatman 8 месяцев назад

That is Freaking Awesome! Well Done Sir!!!

@electrohoard 8 месяцев назад

Haha I’m glad you liked it! I also think its awesome being able to boot such vintage machines with a USB stick! Thanks for watching :)

@LuminousWatcher 7 месяцев назад

I was actually surprised to see dos 6.22 work on an XT system. never think I ran that on anything less than a 486SX

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

DOS 6.22 runs fine on XT machines. Sure, DOS 3.31 wold be more time correct and supports HDs up to 512MB, but when I was a kid DOS 6.22 was all the hype so I tend to use it everywhere cause it brings me back good old memories…

@LuminousWatcher 7 месяцев назад

@electrohoard watching your video i recall with regret that we threw out a lot of original IBM XTs my dad had gotten from next to nothing when our consulate replaced them... but back then they were "old" not "retro". I guess I never thought to install a more modern DOS on them. I had just gotten my first pc, a 486DX4... so they were very slow...

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

@@LuminousWatcher yeah, I threw lots of hardware in the trash back then too. When I got my first 486 (SX-33Mhz) those XT just felt like total garbage. Now I regret 😂

@infopackrat 7 месяцев назад

Cool video! I would like to see a speed benchmark on this. How does it compare to a hard drive?

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

I’ll do that on a future video! Its not fast, but works fine for such machine :)

@ayan.debnath 6 месяцев назад

@@electrohoardbetter or slower than CF card?

@electrohoard 6 месяцев назад

@@ayan.debnath slower, but more convenient and cheaper.

@ayan.debnath 6 месяцев назад

Can I use AT28C64 IC?

@electrohoard 6 месяцев назад

No, because the WE pin is connected on the ISA board, which results in data corruption. If you lift the pin and connect it to GND it should work.

@prozacgodretro 6 месяцев назад

I always find it way more convenient on XT class machines to have multiple partitions no more than 100 megabytes just because of that free-sized calculation so dang slow.

@ayan.debnath 6 месяцев назад

thats why I use a 64MB partition.

@electrohoard 6 месяцев назад

Thats true, but there is a way around that. I’ll make a video about it.

@ayan.debnath 5 месяцев назад

@@electrohoard waiting....

@leonardoelias22 7 месяцев назад

MS-DOS brasileiro!

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

Haha you noticed it! Indeed that’s MS-DOS Brazilian Portuguese :) Thanks for watching!

@markshade8398 7 месяцев назад

A minor but very important correction. That is NOT a USB programmer.... That early uldnprogram USB drives. That is an eeprom programmer, the hich connects via USB, but it programs eeproms rather than USB drives. There is a serious difference.