Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 21 01:43:07 1998

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_at_alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Received on Mon Dec 21 1998 - 01:43:07 GMT

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