Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Sun Dec 13 19:16:54 1998

> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:51:51 -0600 (CST)
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?
> X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>

> 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.

It does looks similar to Lisa except it's portable in size.

> > 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?)
 
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Pero, Jason D.
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