Do you still have the old 286? If so boot it up and hook it to a current computer via serial port and transfer the data that way. Otherwise you'll need to find out what type of drive it is (most likely MFM or RLL) and rig a controller up for that which won't be easy. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Chris G. <thoth.serath at gmail.com> wrote: > i am trying to get information off of an old hard drive out of a 286 > computer. it is a few megabytes big. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090828/0dc954f5/attachment.htm