13 Dec
1998
13 Dec
'98
11:16 a.m.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:51:51 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?
X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Gregory wrote:
It does looks similar to Lisa except it's portable in size.
Hi. I recently acquired a Hyperion
"portable" PC - Mac-influenced, 8086,
Mac-influenced? You must be talking about somebody named Mac, because
the Hyperion was introduced two years *before* Apple's Mac. > dual 5.25 floppies, built in 4" amber
monitor. I can't seem to get it to
> boot, however. When I power it up, I get a flashing cursor, and the
> system tries both drives. Then I get a "DISK FAULT" error on screen.
> I've tried various versions of DOS, from 2.1 to 3.3, with the same
> result.
Have you tried to create 320K bootable disks with any dos 3.x and 2.x
and even 5.x? I had no problems booting on 360K disks.
It does want a custom version of DOS (1.x is the
version I have). The
Hyperion is one of the DOS-compatible machines as opposed to a
PC-compatible, so you can't use PC-DOS.
True.. use well behaved software so that limits your choices lot.
-- Doug
Oh, Hyperions can be expanded to full 640K, by external bare small
circuit board on that 3 row pin connector. (what's the name for that
type of connector, for example: DB-9?)
email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.