11-06-2020, 06:44 AM
I'd like to thank both Admin and Callmejack for solving the problem of a new installation on a XP computer. Not every one is willing to support retro stuff. I have been using a Clevo D470W laptop running XP, now both well past their prime, as a workshop computer for programming chips with a TL866A programmer and also storing driver software for laptop computers I'm repairing. I just added a SCP to the Clevo successfully (I hope) with the XP install plus .dll's posted above. I'm just about to test the installation on a couple of Shugart SA300 drives. Then will know if I followed directions correctly or not. No error messages so far. After that, my next project is to complete a 34 pin to 26 pin laptop mylar cable adapter board so I can test some laptop floppy drives. I owned a laptop repair business some years ago and have stacks of spare drives I want to test and sell as working devices. Also, I want to test of a couple of 8" drives including one that had the magic smoke come out of a tantalum cap (now replaced) near the drive's power plug when I first powered it up. Some of these are for soon to be restored S-100 computers I've owned for decades.