HP Portable Plus

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Tue May 26 17:45:45 1998

Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com> writes:
> Thanks, changing the jumper and hitting reset did the trick. I needed to
> reformat the RAM disk after the reset, but I have a couple of "advanced
> mail" apps in ROM that seem to expect files to be present on the RAM disk.
> Is there some special way to setup the ROM apps, or do I manually create
> directories and files as I get errors?

That would be AdvanceMail. I vaguely remember that you do have to
create something for it to make it not complain. Not that it's real
useful -- I think you need to have something for it to connect to,
and while I know there was some way to make it talk to HPDeskManager
on the HP3000s I don't think it ever got updated to talk anything like
POP3 or QWK packets or what have you.

Nevertheless there seem to be a lot of Portable Pluses out there with
the AdvanceMail software, and I can only guess that is because HP was
using HPDeskManager for its internal e-mail network until two or three?
years ago and found it useful to equip a lot of its internal-use Pluses
with AdvanceMail.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Tue May 26 1998 - 17:45:45 BST