11 Feb
2009
11 Feb
'09
12:26 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Or, better yet, just hook a 360k drive up to the PC.
They shouldn't be
that hard to find - and you can always borrow one out of another
computer (like the Compaq). Or, just pop the top off the Compaq, unhook
the drive, and hook it up to your PC with a long floppy cable.
Or rip the top off of the compaq and stick in a 720K 3.5" drive. Make the
3.5" boot disk with DOS 3.20 or higher. Once booted, you can use it to
make a 5.25" boot disk on the B: drive.
The original Compaq "Portable" with two floppy drives will accept generic
MS-DOS or IBM PC-DOS.
Once you get it booted, you WILL want to use Compaq MS-DOS, or at least
copy certain files over. For example, MODE.COM has differences for the
Compaq in terms of external monitor, etc.
BTW, the Compaq internal monitor is capable of EGA, but the Compaq EGA
board (with the mid-board connector for the internal monitor) is hard to
find. At least one other video board company sold a daughter board to
convert one of their EGA boards for Compaq use.
Windows 3.0 can be run on the 8088 Compaq (either CGA or EGA), if you
really want to suffer.
If you get one of the 80286 Compaqs then you can run Windoze 3.10
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