Compaq Portable II

[Moondog]

Today I found a Compaq Portable II that was sitting in a storage space at work.  I haven't plugged it in yet, but one of the old timers told me recalls it was still working when put away.  Is anyone familiar with these?  I haven't looked to see if it's a 10mb or 20mb model.

[RedWolf]

I am vaguely familiar with them.  Those are neat machines.  My friend growing up had an original Compaq Portable that he used to play Jumpman Junior on.  It was a neat PC booter machine, despite the monochrome monitor.  Those were good times.

Does your have any plans to use it for anything?  If the hard drive still works, then you're in good shape.  If it has neat stuff on it, find a way to get it off in case the HD crashes, so you'll have all the original DOS files, drivers, etc.

Can you post some pictures of it?

[Moondog]

IIRC I have a copy of Fastlynks or something similar and a Laplink cable sitting around.  Trouble is my copy is on 3.5" floppy instead of 5.25", but I have bootstrapped FX to other machines back in the days with a CTTY(?) command or something like that (my DOS-fu is old and rusty.)  I've also been playing with FreeDOS from time to time, and maybe able to move stuff over to it.

I'm looking for my copy of Procomm so I could try out doing something along the lines of accessing StarTTY or connecting to a linux box via serial cable and use it to pull internet content over the Compac.

[Moondog]

I had a chance to start it up this weekend, and it's only the dual 5.25" floppy version, no hdd.  HP/ Compaq had a service manual in PDF form, so I'm reading up on it.

[orsty3001]

Jumping Jr is a great game! That's all I can add to this conversation.