16 Aug
2013
16 Aug
'13
6:43 a.m.
On 08/15/2013 06:41 PM, Jim Stephens wrote:
On 8/15/2013 2:31 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Hmm, I think almost all of that is related to later systems from the '486
onward; there doesn't seem to be much in there at all from the '286 and
'386 timeframe. I do see a see a diagnostic disk from 1992 - although even
that is 7 years after the Deskpro/286's release, so I'm not sure if Compaq
would have retained support for older systems in there.
Mind you, the dates are perhaps a little suspect anyway - e.g. "ProLinea
486-Based PCs Windows 3.1 Support" dated November '87. I don't think The
i486 even came out until a couple of years or so after that.
Interesting how some of the descriptions are truncated. I did chuckle at
"The Windows Delete Utility will delete the Windows Delete Utility from the
hard drive.", which sounds like one of the most useful utilities ever. :-)
cheers
Jules
If I do need the Compaq DOS floppies, does anyone have images available
(3.5" preferred, but I think I have some spare 5.25" HD floppies and
could put the Compaq's drive into my desktop PC temporarily to write them)
amazingly ftp.compaq.com is still online. You can go to /pub/softpaq and
get anything. I have downloaded all of the softpaq so I could search the
indices.
I'll email you the index of SP 0000 thru 23000 offline direct. After that
from SP23000 thru 45000 there are only the indexes for each product.