13 Dec
1998
13 Dec
'98
3:51 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Gregory wrote:
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.
Does the Hyperion require an earlier version of DOS, or a customized
version? Or, do I just have a machine with defunct floppy drives?
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.
If nobody else offers floppies, let me know, but I'm terrible about
getting that kind of stuff out sometimes (BTW, does the other person I
promised Hyperion floppies still need them?).
-- Doug