<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>illys</author><text>If you can put USD 50-100 in your antics, you may add an XT-IDE ISA card with a Compact Flash adapter.&lt;p&gt;The one I have has a slot in the backside metal bracket: I can load a Compact Flash (1 GiB, FAT-32 formatted) in a modern PC with a USB adapter, then I insert the Compact Flash in the back of my IBM PC and switch it on with new fresh data and software.&lt;p&gt;Note that the Compact Flash is seen by DOS (6.2 in my case) as a hard disk drive, you may boot on it. It may also co-exist with an MFM harddrive: in my case, the MFM drive is C: and boots, the Compact Flash is D:.&lt;p&gt;It is a very convenient setup to make the IBM PC a smooth place in our modern IT world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drivers99</author><text>Can’t wait to check this out on my IBM PC (5150) with CGA which is my first computer that I still have. (Some of the RAM is bad though so if it needs the full 640k like 8088MHz did I might need to repair it.)&lt;p&gt;Then again 8088MHz worked well for me because I lost the RGBI monitor for it at some point and that demo is designed for composite.&lt;p&gt;Getting files to the PC is an interesting challenge. Have to copy from Windows 10 or 7 to a USB drive and movie that to a PC I have with a serial port and Windows XP and then transfer the demo with Hyperterm in Windows and Telix in MS-DOS on the PC side via null modem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor</title><url>https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/area-5150-8088-mph-gets-a-successor/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperdimension</author><text>Adding to the other comments, there are also SD card&amp;#x2F;flash drive-based &amp;#x27;floppy disk&amp;#x27; hardware emulators available on eBay. They even have buttons on the front so you can cycle through, e.g. all thirteen floppies of Windows 3.1. :)&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s one piece of hardware (3.5&amp;quot; 
hardware emulator) whose clones are popular enough to even have third-party customizable firmware on github!&lt;p&gt;I own one, but unfortunately, I can&amp;#x27;t remember the name of this hardware nor the alternate firmware off the top of my head. When I get to a computer I will check my ebay history.&lt;p&gt;Even though it&amp;#x27;s physically a 3.5&amp;quot; &amp;#x27;drive,&amp;#x27; with the IDC-style connector, the alternate firmware lets you emulate various disk geometries, and I believe the 3.5&amp;quot; and 5.25&amp;quot; signals are electrically compatible.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an extremely useful piece of hardware, especially if you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;already&lt;/i&gt; getting software in the form of floppy disk images from a place like winworldpc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drivers99</author><text>Can’t wait to check this out on my IBM PC (5150) with CGA which is my first computer that I still have. (Some of the RAM is bad though so if it needs the full 640k like 8088MHz did I might need to repair it.)&lt;p&gt;Then again 8088MHz worked well for me because I lost the RGBI monitor for it at some point and that demo is designed for composite.&lt;p&gt;Getting files to the PC is an interesting challenge. Have to copy from Windows 10 or 7 to a USB drive and movie that to a PC I have with a serial port and Windows XP and then transfer the demo with Hyperterm in Windows and Telix in MS-DOS on the PC side via null modem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor</title><url>https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/area-5150-8088-mph-gets-a-successor/</url></story>