13 Dec
1998
13 Dec
'98
5:53 p.m.
Hi. I recently acquired a Hyperion "portable" PC - Mac-influenced, 8086,
dual 5.25 floppies, built in 4" amber monitor. I can't seem to get it to
boot, however. When I power it up, I get a flashing cursor, and the
system tries both drives. Then I get a "DISK FAULT" error on screen.
I've tried various versions of DOS, from 2.1 to 3.3, with the same
result.
Does the Hyperion require an earlier version of DOS, or a customized
version? Or, do I just have a machine with defunct floppy drives?
Any help much appreciated.
Mark Gregory
13 Dec
13 Dec
6:51 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Gregory wrote:
Hi. I recently acquired a Hyperion
"portable" PC - Mac-influenced, 8086,
Mac-influenced? You must be talking about somebody named Mac, because
the Hyperion was introduced two years *before* Apple's Mac.
dual 5.25 floppies, built in 4" amber monitor. I
can't seem to get it to
boot, however. When I power it up, I get a flashing cursor, and the
system tries both drives. Then I get a "DISK FAULT" error on screen.
I've tried various versions of DOS, from 2.1 to 3.3, with the same
result.
Does the Hyperion require an earlier version of DOS, or a customized
version? Or, do I just have a machine with defunct floppy drives?
It does want a custom version of DOS (1.x is the version I have). The
Hyperion is one of the DOS-compatible machines as opposed to a
PC-compatible, so you can't use PC-DOS.
If nobody else offers floppies, let me know, but I'm terrible about
getting that kind of stuff out sometimes (BTW, does the other person I
promised Hyperion floppies still need them?).
-- Doug
2:16 p.m.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:51:51 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
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Subject: Re: Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Gregory wrote:
It does looks similar to Lisa except it's portable in size.
Hi. I recently acquired a Hyperion
"portable" PC - Mac-influenced, 8086,
Mac-influenced? You must be talking about somebody named Mac, because
the Hyperion was introduced two years *before* Apple's Mac. > dual 5.25 floppies, built in 4" amber
monitor. I can't seem to get it to
> boot, however. When I power it up, I get a flashing cursor, and the
> system tries both drives. Then I get a "DISK FAULT" error on screen.
> I've tried various versions of DOS, from 2.1 to 3.3, with the same
> result.
Have you tried to create 320K bootable disks with any dos 3.x and 2.x
and even 5.x? I had no problems booting on 360K disks.
It does want a custom version of DOS (1.x is the
version I have). The
Hyperion is one of the DOS-compatible machines as opposed to a
PC-compatible, so you can't use PC-DOS.
True.. use well behaved software so that limits your choices lot.
-- Doug
Oh, Hyperions can be expanded to full 640K, by external bare small
circuit board on that 3 row pin connector. (what's the name for that
type of connector, for example: DB-9?)
email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
20 Dec
20 Dec
8:45 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 jpero(a)pop.cgocable.net wrote:
Oh, Hyperions can be expanded to full 640K, by
external bare small
circuit board on that 3 row pin connector. (what's the name for that
type of connector, for example: DB-9?)
Do you know the pinout of that connector?
email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
--
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
8:43 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Gregory wrote:
Hi. I recently acquired a Hyperion
"portable" PC
Congrats on the find! I have two Hyperions but I think they are both from
Dynalogic.
Does the Hyperion require an earlier version of DOS,
or a customized
version? Or, do I just have a machine with defunct floppy drives?
Good question. There is a special version of DOS for the machine (as the
other Doug mentioned) but both of my machines are capable of booting from
standard MS/PC-DOS disks. Someone on Fido reported that his Hyperion will
only boot with the original disk, though, but I think he was trying to
make DD floppies for it in a HD drive.
The second Hyperion that I dragged home initially wouldn't boot (I don't
have genuine Hyperion disks) but I opened the machine up and put it back
together and the drive has been working since.
I don't know what I did to get it to work. Nudged the head loose? :)
Unfortunately now the screen doesn't work, and I haven't had time to go in
and see what I did wrong. Hopefully over the holidays I'll find time.
It's a pain getting to the Hyperion's floppy drives, BTW. You have to
remove just about every other piece of the machine's innards first.
Mark Gregory
--
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
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