More on Fresh MEat

From: Brian Mahoney <bmahoney_at_sprint.ca>
Date: Sat May 15 09:20:07 1999

http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/qrg/portIII.html
http://www.compaq.com/support/portables/out_of_production/index.html
http://www.compaq.com/productinfo/notebooks/old_portables.html

These urls are to Compaq, obviously, who, in a similar manner as IBM,
have continued to provide information on their older computers.
Althought not as complete as the IBM site, Compaq offers some downloads
of a PDF file (you have to hold shift while clicking it to bring up the
download menu, they don't tell you that) with all the jumper settings.

I was chagrined to discover the Portable III was not Y2K compatible ...
at least not without some fiddling, but they tell you how to do that
also.

If you have an old unit from a major manufacturer, try their website. Do
a search in different areas as sometimes a whole site search turns up
nothing but a Y2K search will turn up lots of info, etc. Happy hunting!

Brian

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