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- From: ladasky@netcom.com (John J. Ladasky II)
- Subject: Help! Dinosaur - HP 100/150
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.074039.9560@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:40:39 GMT
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- Greetings, fellow netters.
-
- I've offered to fix an old computer for a low-income friend of
- mine. I had no idea what kind of trouble I'd be getting into!
-
- The computer is an HP Model 100, Series 150. It includes a
- Model 9122 disk drive. The documentation places the maunfacturing date
- of this system at about 1984. I can get the thing to boot with the
- standard system disk, and it seems to run, of all things, Microsoft's
- MS-DOS 2.11. The disks were actually readable on a DOS 5.0 system that
- I own. There's a menu-driven system that you're supposed to use to select
- programs, but I can get out to the shell just fine.
-
- The problem with the system seems to be the B drive of the 9122
- disk. I can't do anything with it - and you want to leave the system/
- program disk in the A drive if you can, since the system has no hard drive.
- I've also noticed that the total disk space on the floppies is a little
- lower than standard - 640K vs. 720K. So, here are my questions.
-
- 1) I'd rather not fool with such an ancient version of DOS. What's
- inside the HP? If I could find a more current version of DOS, can I
- run it on the HP?
-
- 2) Disk drive repair is beyond my ability. Can I replace the 9122? Can
- I replace it with something that will read a standard 720K DOS disk? Can
- I get something that includes a small hard disk? Can I get something
- CHEAP?
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
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- == John J. Ladasky II ("ii") ========================= ladasky@netcom.COM ==
- "Great composers do not borrow - "Talking about music is like
- they steal." - John Ladasky ~ - dancing about architecture."
- (quote stolen from Stravinsky, who o o - Elvis Costello? Laurie
- stole it from a statement made by > Anderson? Frank Zappa?
- Pablo Picasso about painting, who \_/ -------------------------------
- stole it from...) "Property is theft." - Groucho
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- "A man w/o charity in his heart - what has he to do with music?" - Confucius
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