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- Two Device Drivers for Hewlett-Packard HP 150 MS-DOS Diskettes
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- Sydex
- P.O. Box 5700
- Eugene, OR 97405
- Voice: (503) 683-6033
- FAX: (503) 683-1622
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- HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS
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- Two Device Drivers for Hewlett-Packard HP 150 MS-DOS Diskettes
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- Copyright 1990, Sydex
- All Rights Reserved
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- Version 2.0 June, 1990
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- Sydex
- P.O. Box 5700
- Eugene, OR 97405
- Voice: (503) 683-6033
- FAX: (503) 683-1622
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- NOTICE
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- THIS IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE! If you paid a "public domain" vendor
- for this program, you paid for the service of copying the
- program, and not for the program itself. Rest assured that noth-
- ing ever gets to the originators of this product from such a
- sale. You may evaluate this product, but if you make use of it,
- you must register your copy.
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- We offer several inducements to you for registering. First of
- all, you receive the most up-to-date copy of the program that we
- have without the advertising copy embedded. You also receive sup-
- port for HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS--which can be quite valuable
- at times. And finally, we include a few utilities not included
- in the evaluation package. Make no mistake however--we do not
- "cripple" our evaluation software--our sample programs are fully
- functional and complete.
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- REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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- The non-commercial single-user registration fee for HP150.SYS and
- HP150II.SYS is $20.00 US. The commercial and multisystem site
- fee is $150.00 for HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS.
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- Send a check or company P.O. for the appropriate amount to:
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- SYDEX
- P.O. Box 5700
- Eugene, OR 97405
- Voice: (503) 683-6033
- FAX: (503) 683-1622
- Data: (503) 683-1385
- Major Credit Cards Accepted
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- Please indicate what product you are ordering and if you have a
- requirement for 3.5" media. We normally ship 5.25" 360K dis-
- kettes, but we will furnish 3.5" 720K media upon request. Orders
- placed outside of the U.S. and Canada should include an addi-
- tional $5.00 for airmail. We can accept U.S. funds only, please.
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- DISTRIBUTION NOTICE
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- This is "user-supported" software. You are hereby granted a
- license by Sydex to distribute this evaluation copy of HP150.SYS
- and HP150II.SYS and its documentation, subject to the following
- conditions:
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- 1. HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS may be distributed freely without
- charge in evaluation form only.
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- 2. HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS may not be sold, licensed, or a
- fee charged for their use. If a fee is charged in connec-
- tion with HP150.SYS and/or HP150II.SYS, it must cover the
- cost of copying or dissemination only. Such charges must be
- clearly identified as such by the originating party. Under
- no circumstances may the purchaser be given the impression
- that he is buying HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS themselves.
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- 3. HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS must be presented as complete
- units, including this documentation. This documentation may
- be not amended or altered in any way.
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- 4. In granting you the right to distribute the evaluation form
- of HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS, Sydex does not acknowledge you
- as the owner of HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS in any form.
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- Any other use or distribution of HP150.SYS and
- HP150II.SYS is expressly forbidden without the written
- consent of SYDEX.
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- "HP 150" and "HP" are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
- "IBM", "PC DOS" and "Personal System/2" are trademarks of Interna-
- tional Business Machines Corporation. "MS-DOS" is a trademark of
- Microsoft Corporation.
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- What are HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS?
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- HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS are two device drivers which support
- reading and writing of MS-DOS diskettes from Hewlett-Packard
- Corporation's HP 150 series computers on PC XT- or AT-compatible
- machines. Under DOS 3.2 or later, the utilities FORMAT, DISKCOPY
- and DISKCOMP are supported, as well as normal DOS read and write
- operations. HP150.SYS is used for single-sided HP 150 diskettes;
- HP150II.SYS is used for the double-sided diskettes of the Series
- II HP 150.
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- To use HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS, your computer must be PC AT-,
- XT- or IBM Personal System/2 compatible. Computers such as the
- Tandy 2000 or the Zenith Z-150 are not suitable because of their
- relative incompatibility. Further, your computer must be
- equipped with a 3.5" 720K or 1.44M diskette drive. To read and
- write HP 150 5.25" diskettes, your computer must be equipped with
- high-density 1.2 Megabyte drive or a 5.25" "quad" density drive,
- such as the Teac 55F. The diskette adapter on your computer must
- match the diskette drive characteristics. That is, a high-
- density drive must be used with a high-density adapter. Many
- manufacturers, such as Western Digital, produce high-density dis-
- kette adapters for XT-style computers, and these may be used suc-
- cessfully with HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS. Currently, we support
- only the first (or primary) diskette adapter in a system.
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- And finally, your computer needs to be running PC-DOS or MS-DOS
- Version 2.0 or later. DOS 3.2 or later is preferable, but not
- required. Version 2 DOS users may find that some HP150.SYS and
- HP150II.SYS functions, such as formatting, are not supported.
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- Installing and Using HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS
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- Installation of HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS is straightforward.
- First, find the file CONFIG.SYS in the root directory of the disk
- that your computer boots (loads DOS) from. It may be possible
- that you do not have a CONFIG.SYS file, in which case the next
- few steps will create one. If you are unfamiliar with the
- CONFIG.SYS file, take time out now and read the section in your
- DOS manual dealing with it, and in particular, the DEVICE= state-
- ment.
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- You'll need to add a line to CONFIG.SYS of the following general
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- DEVICE=HP150.SYS /D:unit /F:format
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- DEVICE=HP150II.SYS /D:unit /F:format
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- This can be done with the program EDLIN which is supplied with
- DOS, or with a text editor of your choosing. If you use a word-
- processing editor, make sure that you indicate that CONFIG.SYS is
- a nondocument file. If you didn't find a CONFIG.SYS, the above
- line will be the only line in the file which is created.
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- The value of unit can range from 0 to 3 and represents the physi-
- cal diskette unit to be used to read and write the HP 150 dis-
- kettes. If this unit is normally called A: on your computer,
- then the value of unit is 0; if B:, then unit is 1. External
- drives are generally units 2 and 3.
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- The value of format depends on the type of diskette drive that
- you're using. If it's a high-density 1.2 megabyte unit, then the
- value of format is 1. If you're using a 3.5" drive or a "quad"
- density drive, such as the Teac 55F, then format is 2.
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- If /D:unit is omitted in the configuration line, unit is assumed
- to be 1. If /F:format is omitted, format is assumed to be 1 also.
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- The last step is to copy the file HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS into
- the root directory of your system or "boot" drive. Finally, re-
- boot your computer. If your computer is configured with a ver-
- sion of DOS 3, the following message will be displayed:
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- HP 150 (or HP 150II) diskette driver, Copyright 1990, Sydex
- All Rights Reserved.
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- HP 150 (or HP 150II) DOS diskette unit x is accessible as
- drive y:
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- The letters x and y will take on values which depend on the con-
- figuration of your computer.
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- If your computer is configured with a version of DOS 2, the fol-
- lowing message will be displayed:
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- HP 150 (or HP 150II) diskette driver, Copyright 1990, Sydex
- All Rights Reserved.
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- HP150 (or HP 150II) DOS diskette unit x installed.
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- In this case, the drive letter which is used to read HP 150 dis-
- kettes will generally be one greater than the last drive letter
- in use before you modified CONFIG.SYS. For example, if drive C:
- was the last drive on your computer, HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS
- will use drive letter D:.
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- As an example of the whole process described above, suppose that
- we wished to add HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS to a PC-AT "clone"
- which has one 3.5" diskette drive and a hard disk. Our
- CONFIG.SYS file on drive C: might look like this after we
- modified it using EDLIN:
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- FILES = 30
- BUFFERS = 10
- DEVICE = HP150.SYS /D:0 /F:2 (This line is added)
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- If we are adding HP150II.SYS to this system, our CONFIG.SYS file
- on drive C: might look like this after we modified it using ED-
- LIN:
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- FILES = 30
- BUFFERS = 10
- DEVICE = HP150II.SYS /D:0 /F:2 (This line is added)
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- We then copy HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS to drive C:...
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- COPY /B A:HP150.SYS C:\
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- COPY /B A:HP150II.SYS C:\
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- We then press the keys Ctrl, Alt and Del simultaneously to
- "reboot" our computer. After the rebooting process has com-
- pleted, the following message is displayed:
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- HP 150 (or HP 150II) diskette driver, Copyright 1989, Sydex
- All Rights Reserved.
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- HP 150 (or HP 150II) DOS diskette unit 0 is accessible as
- drive D:
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- We then find that HP 150 diskettes placed in our A: drive can be
- read and written if we refer to that drive as drive D:.
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- FINAL COMMENTS...
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- HP150.SYS and HP150II.SYS were written in response to inquiries
- from customers who had our CP/M diskette transfer package, but
- who had no way to easily handle the HP 150 DOS diskettes. We
- hope that this situation is now remedied. If you experience
- problems in getting HP150.SYS or HP150II.SYS to work for you, or
- if you have questions about any Sydex product, please give us a
- call.
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- Other Sydex Products
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- AnaDisk -- The compleat diskette utility. Nothing like it
- anywhere else; scan, edit, repair and copy just about any kind of
- diskette. $25.00 ($150.00 site) registration fee.
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- Con>Format -- Concurrent "background" diskette formatter. Fea-
- tures "pop-up" operation and "hot key" activation. You've got to
- see it to believe. Supports all current DOS formats. $15.00
- ($50.00 site) registration fee.
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- 22DISK -- Transfer files, format, examine and erase files on
- "foreign" CP/M diskettes on your PC. Includes tips on supporting
- 8" and 5.25" single-density diskettes. Contains definitions for
- over 250 different formats. "Roll your own" option for unusual
- formats. $25.00 ($100.00 site) registration fee.
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- 22NICE -- A CP/M 2.2 emulation package. Supports the NEC
- V-series chips or performs emulation by software for both the
- 8080 and Z80 processors. Includes terminal emulation and dis-
- kette handling for common CP/M systems. Includes 22DISK. $40.00
- ($150.00 site) registration fee.
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- TeleDisk -- Our diskette FAX machine. Turn any diskette into a
- compressed data file and vice-versa. Allows you to send and
- receive entire diskettes via modem. Even works with some "copy-
- protected" diskettes. $20.00 ($150.00 site) registration fee.
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- COPYQM -- Mass diskette duplicator. Format, copy and verify mul-
- tiple diskettes from a single master. Implements "no keyboard"
- interaction mode and drive "round robin" servicing. Supports all
- standard DOS formats. Copy even non-DOS diskettes with "blind
- copy" option in the latest release. $15.00 ($50.00 site)
- registration fee.
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- FORMATQM -- Mass diskette formatter - format a box of diskettes
- at a single sitting. Implements "no keyboard" interaction mode
- and drive "round robin" servicing. Supports all standard DOS for-
- mats. $10.00 ($40.00 site) registration fee.
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- Information on any of these products can be obtained from Sydex
- by calling or writing us at:
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- Sydex
- P.O. Box 5700
- Eugene, OR 97405
- Voice: (503) 683-6033
- FAX: (503) 683-1622
- Data: (503) 683-1385
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