On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Doug Spence wrote:
While I would definitely classify it as an MS-DOS
machine rather than an
IBM-PC compatible (because it isn't very PC compatible), I don't know why
you specify DOS 1.x?
Because that's what mine came with. The Hyperion was intro'd at the
Spring 1982 Comdex, which I think beat Compaq's intro, so natch the
world's first portable DOS machine is going to come with MS-DOS 1.x.
OK. I wasn't aware of the exact timing of the machine's introduction, nor
do I know the timeline of the various DOS versions. I suspected a 1982
date for the Hyperion, though, because there was a blurb about it in the
April 1983 issue of Computing Now! magazine, where they compared 50
systems.
Somebody's web page had a "late 80s" date which I knew to be bogus.
Did the Hyperion beat Compaq's intro? And if so, how come Compaq
generally gets the credit?
No software
I've tried so far (admittedly little) has seen the Hyperion's
internal modem or serial port. What do I have to do to get these to work?
I take it you don't have the original docs or software? Mine came with
some software called IN:TOUCH that uses the modem.
I bought both units at the Salvation Army, for $10 CDN each. As you know,
the Salvation Army is very bad at keeping bits and pieces of systems
together, even if they do arrive at the store together. So no, I don't
have docs, disks, or the carrying cases, I only have the machines
themselves.
I don't see a lot of technical details in the
manual, but here are a few
tidbits: there's a built-in RAM disk (C:);
Do I need to specify something in the config.sys to get this running?
Just booting up bog-standard MS-DOS and typing "c:" doesn't get me
anywhere.
the connectors in the back from left to right are:
composite video, phone,
line, optional accoustic coupler, serial, parallel, expansion;
I had figured as much from the pictograms on my second Hyperion unit. The
first one had labels that were off-center and didn't really look the way
they were supposed to (the picture for the composite video had three
circles and I took that to mean RGB, and there were three unlabeled phone
jacks beneath that, so I thought they might be for some bizarre RGB
monitor connection).
How fast is the modem? 300 baud?
display modes: 320x200, 640x200, 320x250, 640x250.
Are the x250 modes normal for the PC?
-- Doug
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/