Old DOS on topic yet?

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Fri Sep 26 08:36:06 2003

The HP 95LX (MS-DOS 3.3 in ROM) came out slightly after the Poqet, and it also does not have a fully PCMCIA 1.0 compatable card slot. The HP 100LX (MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM), which came out in 1993, has does have a fully compatable slot, PCMCIA Revision 2.0, IIRC.

The PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association) was formed in June of 1989.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin [mailto:cisin_at_xenosoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:39 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Old DOS on topic yet?


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
> I would like to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine
> on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
> a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)

The Poqet computer came out just over ten years ago. It used two memory
cards that were PCMCIA, but before the official PCMCIA standard was
developed. Does anybody know offhand exactly when the PCMCIA standard
came about?

PCMCIA = "People Can't memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"


The Toshiba 1100, and the Atari Portfolio wer out about that time, and
like the Poqet, they had versions of DOS in ROM. (The Portfolio was a
wannabe, Toshiba and Poqet were MS-DOS)
Received on Fri Sep 26 2003 - 08:36:06 BST