Does anyone know if Freedos would work on a GridPad 1910?
For those that don't know this is a PC/XT tablet computer. 10 Meg hard
drive in this one. No floppy, so install will be interesting.
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from Bob:
> Does anyone know if Freedos would work on a GridPad 1910?
> For those that don't know this is a PC/XT tablet computer. 10 Meg hard
> drive in this one. No floppy, so install will be interesting.
How do you transfer data to GridPad 1910?
Surely there would be no USB or CD, and har
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> How do you transfer data to GridPad 1910?
> Surely there would be no USB or CD, and hard drive would interface would be
> something that came long before IDE or ATA and not compatible with modern
> computers?
See http://oldcomputers.net/
You need to format the flash drive with a FreeDOS boot sector and kernel
then figure out how to tell the bios to boot off that drive. A similar
process used to work a Poqet PC I used to have [0]. Beware these kind of
computers can have a non-compatible bios. This will affect their chance
for suc
from dmccunney:
> See http://oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html
> But since it came with MSDOS 3.3 built in, the question is why you
> would need FreeDOS.
Thanks for the link, it was interesting out of curiosity, but of course nobody
would pay $2370 nowadays for something like that.
"Tablet" sound
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from dmccunney:
>
>> See http://oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html
>
>> But since it came with MSDOS 3.3 built in, the question is why you
>> would need FreeDOS.
>
> Thanks for the link, it was interesting out of curiosity, but of course
> nobod
There is a limited subset of DOS in ROM. The hard drive had been
cleaned of most of its contents, they did leave the on screen keyboard
software loaded.
Two 10meg flash cards came with it. At least that is what the label on
them claims.
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