26 Jul
1999
26 Jul
'99
2:11 p.m.
On 26 Jul 99 at 22:22, Christian Fandt wrote:
Upon the date 04:46 PM 7/26/99 +0000, Joe said
something like:
I have an HP disk labelled "Vectra" MS-DOS 3.1. It came with 7 others on
DEC-label disks which were hand written "AT&T Dos v3.3a Rel 1.01" for 4
disks.
2 were "AT&T Test Diagnostics PC6300 non-bootable 360k" and the other was
"AT&T Clock Set Patch 6300" Obviously ,it would seem, for the AT&T 6300
While the 3.1 disks would boot my Philips luggable I could make nothing out of
the others.
Possibly there was a reason they were with the Vectra disk.
I'm not using them if it would help.
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Chris,
At 03:40 PM 7/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Upon the date 08:27 PM 7/26/99 +0200, Hans B Pufal said something like:
>>Christian Fandt wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>
>>> Anybody know if the setup files are still online at HP and if so where are
>>> they? If nothing is on HP's site anymore does anybody have a copy of the
>>> setup file for the _Classic_ Vectra they could email to me?
>>
>>I'll see if I can find one at HP Grenoble when I visit this week. This
>>is where the vectras were (and still are) designed.
>
>That's great Hans! I would be much appreciative!
>
The operating syst. dependency is specific to the software, not to the
Vectra. I tried running the software under M$DOS 6.22 and the program
randomly crashed once in a while. When the graph of the data was attempted
to be brought up the program blew up and took the machine back to the C:\>
prompt. The software was originally written for the HP85 and ported to the
Vectra. The machine alone seemed to like 6.22 but I didn't take time to
thoroughly test it. Windoze 3.1 would run too I think but the Seven Year
Itch would come and go before much happened :)
>
>Apparently, the software vendor, Ernst
>>Leitz GmbH, had used hardware addresses specific to the HPIB card and
>>perhaps to the Classic Vectra itself along with system calls, etc. found
>>only in dos 3.2 and earlier. Also, Leica engineers found that ISA bus
>>speeds cannot be too high (e.g. > 8MHz or so).
>