HP-150 Touchscreen

Those are totally awesome. I had one as my first computer, but traded it away years ago. I'd love to get one back someday. I had a chess program for it at one point that utilized the touch screen. And a copy of Zork. Good times! Unfortunately, I lost all the copies of the software. But you are correct in that it used a custom version of DOS. They're "MS-DOS compatible", but not IBM PC compatible. You can use it like a dumb terminal though without the DOS disks... -Ben ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Robert Jarratt [robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:56 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: HP-150 Touchscreen I have just collected one of these machines. I don't know a lot about them. It seems they use a customized version of MS-DOS. Does anyone have a copy? I have inspected the PSU in the base unit and there are no obviously swollen capacitors, but it is 30 years old. Not sure if I should try applying power. Regards Rob