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An autodata dongle emulator is a device designed to function as the internal hard disk of an older computer, commonly seen in older-model computers pre-dating Windows XP. The purpose of this device is to allow the older software and operating systems running on these computers to read and write data as they would on a more modern system. The most common type of autodata dongle emulator has an enclosure shaped like a floppy drive, which can be easily inserted into the open drive slot of the computer’s motherboard. The only difference between the autodata dongle and a normal hard drive is that the autodata dongle does not spin. The enclosure has a connector that plugs into the computer’s motherboard, and another connector that plugs into an onboard internal IRQ of the computer’s motherboard. In order for a computer to recognize an autodata dongle, it is necessary for its IRQ to be set from 0x2b0 to 0x2000 in order for it to be detected by any system running on Windows ME or earlier. In order to use the autodata disk, a copy of DOS or Windows 3.1 must be installed onto it through software such as Microsoft DiskCopy. Envisioned as a replacement for a floppy disk, an autodata dongle can be used to store the data for any executable file that requires a hard drive, as it is read/write accessible from DOS and Windows 3.1. In this type of autodata dongle emulator no hard drives are installed at all. The computer’s motherboard has one or more slots for an autodata dongle, and the only requirement is that the computer have one solid state memory slot on its motherboard. There are however two main shortcomings with this method of using an autodata dongle: 1. the maximum size of an autodata dongle based on this method is limited to 32MB, so the amount of data that can be stored on it is limited; 2. due to its low cost and compact size, most motherboards do not have solid state memory slots. The bigger limitation compared to the first type of dongle emulator is that only Windows 98 SE and Windows MBR are guaranteed to work on this type of autodata dongle emulator. The biggest advantage however is that the entire hard drive space can be accessed by any operating system that supports disk access, including Linux and Windows XP. A special type of autodata dongle emulator was available for the Tandy Color Computer 3, which used a PCMCIA slot. Created by David Boardman, this particular autodata dongle was inserted into the PCI card slot of the computer’s motherboard. The device was recognized as a hard drive by the BIOS, and could be accessed via DOS or PC-DOS whenever necessary. This type of autodata dongle emulator was also incompatible with newer versions of Windows, although it did work with Windows ME.https://web.archive.org/web/20051019034130/http://www.bordighera-intl. cfa1e77820
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