29 Apr
2006
29 Apr
'06
7:27 a.m.
Hi All,
Does anyone have info or disks for a Data General
Dasher/One PC? I have one that I'm attempting to restore.
Thanks
Rob
In a pinch I think it will boot normal DOS. It was a DOS compatible
machine.
29 Apr
29 Apr
9:33 a.m.
On 4/29/2006 at 10:27 AM James Fogg wrote:
In a pinch I think it will boot normal DOS. It was a
DOS compatible
machine.
If this is the earliest 80c88-based DG/One, it will boot DOS, but note that
the diskette drive is 720K, not 1.44MB. And there were software utilities
for managing things like screen contrast that aren't part of DOS.
Cheers,
Chuck
11:41 a.m.
Yep. I booted DOS 4 on it using 720k disks. I felt kind of stupid
because I thought it had a hard drive in it. I ran the fixed disk
diag's from the BIOS. It started checking the so called drive, and
then would complain about unrecoverable disk errors. SO I was
thinking the harddrive was bad. I went through the trouble to come
up with some DOS boot bisk. Booted it up and attempted to repair the
drive using an older version of Spinrite. Spinrite would come up,
but only so far before locking up. So I figured my next step was to
pull the drive and put it into another machine so I could repair it.
Low and behold, there is no harddrive in it. Stupid BIOS. What the
hell was it reporting? I didn't have floppies in it when I was
running the diag's. So I have been able to boot it using floppies.
So if anyone knows where to get manuals or original disks for it,
please let me know.
Rob
On Apr 29, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 4/29/2006 at 10:27 AM James Fogg wrote:
In a pinch I think it will boot normal DOS. It
was a DOS compatible
machine.
If this is the earliest 80c88-based DG/One, it will boot DOS, but
note that
the diskette drive is 720K, not 1.44MB. And there were software
utilities
for managing things like screen contrast that aren't part of DOS.
Cheers,
Chuck
12:59 p.m.
Robert, I'm a little confused. The original DG/One didn't have a hard
disk, nor an option for one--it did have an external bus connector that
(ostensibly) could be connected to an external expansion box that could
contain a hard disk, however. The model 1 DG/1 didn't even have a backlit
LCD--I think the model 2 used EL backlighting.
Do you perhaps have a later system--something like a Dasher 286?
Cheers,
Chuck
7:38 p.m.
I have a Dasher/One PC not the portable. You can check it out at:
http://www.1000bit.net/scheda.asp?id=1340
Rob
On Apr 29, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Robert, I'm a little confused. The original
DG/One didn't have a hard
disk, nor an option for one--it did have an external bus connector
that
(ostensibly) could be connected to an external expansion box that
could
contain a hard disk, however. The model 1 DG/1 didn't even have a
backlit
LCD--I think the model 2 used EL backlighting.
Do you perhaps have a later system--something like a Dasher 286?
Cheers,
Chuck
9:21 p.m.
On 4/29/2006 at 10:38 PM Robert Borsuk wrote:
I have a Dasher/One PC not the portable. You can check
it out at:
http://www.1000bit.net/scheda.asp?id=1340
Ah, the Dasher "workstation". Too bad it's *not* the protable. I remember
being very impressed by that one.
Cheers,
Chuck
10:39 p.m.
I have a
Dasher/One PC not the portable. You can check it out at:
http://www.1000bit.net/scheda.asp?id=1340
Ah, the Dasher "workstation". Too bad it's *not* the protable. I
remember
being very impressed by that one.
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