27 Oct
1998
27 Oct
'98
7:31 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Weeeeeeeell, I landed a Data General One laptop. Normally I eschew MS-DOS
based machines, simply because I'm a racist pig etc., but this one has an
interesting notebook mode and a built-in terminal program at 1200bps. Except
that the screen is harder to read than James Joyce, it seems like a winner
and it works great.
Question. Anyone know what version of DOS this uses? Does someone have any
boot disks out there, or at least have the system files available for
download? The drives are 3.5" DD, right?
Came as I recall with MS-DOS 2.11, should use anything up to 6.22,
though of course it's tricky building a 720k 6.22.system disk. 3.3
is probably your best bet, although I think there were some hardware
specific utilities on the original material that might come in rather
handy. Nice machine -- the only DOS laptop to tempt me prior to the
Zenith SuperSports.
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