{"id":15333,"date":"2021-12-19T00:39:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T00:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=15333"},"modified":"2021-12-19T00:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T00:39:32","slug":"setting-up-dos-laptop-old-toshiba-satellite","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/setting-up-dos-laptop-old-toshiba-satellite\/17540.html","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up DOS Laptop (Old Toshiba Satellite)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up an older Toshiba Satellite pro (435CDS) which had win98 loaded on it, but it was a real dog. The laptop has an attachable floppy drive, and a built in CD ROM drive, plus 2 built in PCMCIA slots.<br \/>\nI figured I would turn it into a nice DOS machine, to run my old DOS programs and work on all my old files on diskettes.<br \/>\nSo I formatted the hard disk and loaded DOS 6.0 on it, then some nice DOS utilities and software.<br \/>\nNow I am wondering how I can access the CD ROM on there, as well as the two PCMCIA slots?<br \/>\nWas Windows required to do that, or is there a set of drivers or whatnot to get those peripherals to work with DOS?<br \/>\nThe Toshiba support site has some Windows drivers but not much for DOS.<br \/>\nDid I make a mistake in formatting it for DOS, thereby losing access to the CD ROM and PCMCIA slots?<br \/>\nI want to use the laptop mainly for text entry (it has a lovely keyboard) and can save documents on floppy, but I have some flashdisk PCMCIA cards I&#8217;d like to use, and would be nice to access the cdrom for some uses perhaps.<br \/>\nANy help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":27},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15333","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}