20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
9:54 a.m.
Sirs:
Adrian Graham at the Online Computer Museum recommended I contact your group
to try to locate a disk for my Compaq Portable 3. I realize it falls into
the dinosaur category but someone gave it to me and the challenge of getting
it operational was too much to bear.
When it finishes counting all 640K of memory, it reminds me to use a setup
disk or hit "F1". When I do that, it mentions there is a non-system or bad
disk. Then the message keeps repeating when trying various type of DOS disks
I have. I have the feeling Compaq uses something like DOS but I have none of
those OS disks.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Schoppe
20 Feb
20 Feb
11:15 a.m.
It's likely you'll need the setup diskette for he Protable 3. That's needed
in
order to tell the machine what hardware it has. After that it should boot
whatever flavor of MSDOS you care to feed it.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "wschoppe" <wschoppe(a)suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: Boot disk
Sirs:
Adrian Graham at the Online Computer Museum recommended I contact your group
to try to locate a disk for my Compaq Portable 3. I realize it falls into
the dinosaur category but someone gave it to me and the challenge of getting
it operational was too much to bear.
When it finishes counting all 640K of memory, it reminds me to use a setup
disk or hit "F1". When I do that, it mentions there is a non-system or bad
disk. Then the message keeps repeating when trying various type of DOS disks
I have. I have the feeling Compaq uses something like DOS but I have none of
those OS disks.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Schoppe
21 Feb
21 Feb
4:34 a.m.
Hi Bob,
I have several PIIIs. I can't find the original disk but I found that
one of the the PIIIs still has Compaq DOS 3 on it so I created a boot disk
on it and loaded the setup files and part of the DOS files on it. I've made
a copy of that disk using Teledisk. I'll e-mail it to you. You'll need a
copy of Teledisk to un-archive it. Do you have a copy? BTW the original
disk is a 1.2Mb 5 1/4" floppy.
If anyone else wants a copy, let me know and send me your address.
FWIW you can run MS-DOS on the PIII but the Compaq setup utilities
wouldn't run unless you're running Compaq DOS. I did find that one of the
other trouble shooting programs (AMIDAIG ?) would run on it and allow you
to edit the CMOS settings.
Joe
At 03:54 PM 2/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
Sirs:
Adrian Graham at the Online Computer Museum recommended I contact your group
to try to locate a disk for my Compaq Portable 3. I realize it falls into
the dinosaur category but someone gave it to me and the challenge of getting
it operational was too much to bear.
When it finishes counting all 640K of memory, it reminds me to use a setup
disk or hit "F1". When I do that, it mentions there is a non-system or bad
disk. Then the message keeps repeating when trying various type of DOS disks
I have. I have the feeling Compaq uses something like DOS but I have none of
those OS disks.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Schoppe
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