For anyone going to the workshop this weekend: I may need a diagnostics/setup disk for the Compaq Portable III. Can someone find that image and bring it on 5.25 floppy? Also, TIL: Portable III and Portable 386 are different machines. Got myself confused by the naming. The one I need to get working this weekend is the III because it has the "backpack" for add-on cards.
1.2mb floppy I assume? On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
For anyone going to the workshop this weekend: I may need a diagnostics/setup disk for the Compaq Portable III. Can someone find that image and bring it on 5.25 floppy?
Also, TIL: Portable III and Portable 386 are different machines. Got myself confused by the naming. The one I need to get working this weekend is the III because it has the "backpack" for add-on cards.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
1.2mb floppy I assume?
I believe so, but someone should answer who knows more than me about such things. On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 8:36 PM Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
1.2mb floppy I assume?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
For anyone going to the workshop this weekend: I may need a diagnostics/setup disk for the Compaq Portable III. Can someone find that image and bring it on 5.25 floppy?
Also, TIL: Portable III and Portable 386 are different machines. Got myself confused by the naming. The one I need to get working this weekend is the III because it has the "backpack" for add-on cards.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
Yes, 1.2mb floppy. Had you asked earlier this would have been no problem for me to bring, but I won't have a chance to get it before this weekend. The settings won't stay anyway, because the battery is flat in the NVRAM module that keeps them. Fixing this isn't that big a deal, but, again, I'm not going to have access to my stock of parts between now and the time I'm there this weekend. I might be able to cobble something together with parts that we have there, however. Also, the Portable III the museum had that I tested most recently had a hosed up screen. -Ian On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
1.2mb floppy I assume?
I believe so, but someone should answer who knows more than me about such things.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 8:36 PM Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
1.2mb floppy I assume?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
For anyone going to the workshop this weekend: I may need a diagnostics/setup disk for the Compaq Portable III. Can someone find that image and bring it on 5.25 floppy?
Also, TIL: Portable III and Portable 386 are different machines. Got myself confused by the naming. The one I need to get working this weekend is the III because it has the "backpack" for add-on cards.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
The settings won't stay anyway, because the battery is flat in the NVRAM module that keeps them ... the Portable III the museum had that I tested most recently had a hosed up screen
I'm referring to a new one we got since then. It booted and displayed an error message (didn't record it ... Doh!) so that is promising that at least its screen works. :) On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 8:55 PM Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Yes, 1.2mb floppy. Had you asked earlier this would have been no problem for me to bring, but I won't have a chance to get it before this weekend.
The settings won't stay anyway, because the battery is flat in the NVRAM module that keeps them. Fixing this isn't that big a deal, but, again, I'm not going to have access to my stock of parts between now and the time I'm there this weekend. I might be able to cobble something together with parts that we have there, however. Also, the Portable III the museum had that I tested most recently had a hosed up screen.
-Ian
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
1.2mb floppy I assume?
I believe so, but someone should answer who knows more than me about such things.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 8:36 PM Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
1.2mb floppy I assume?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
For anyone going to the workshop this weekend: I may need a diagnostics/setup disk for the Compaq Portable III. Can someone find that image and bring it on 5.25 floppy?
Also, TIL: Portable III and Portable 386 are different machines. Got myself confused by the naming. The one I need to get working this weekend is the III because it has the "backpack" for add-on cards.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
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