From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 15:13:39 EST
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:45:17 -0500, James Oldham <rogopag_at_operamail.com> wrote:
>Please pardon me if this is not the right list for 730T & 730TE questions,
>but I'm hoping to find someone with experience with these systems.
Nope, you've got the right place.
>In particular, I'm interested in installing Pen OS/2 and Penpoint (not dual
>boot, two separate PCMCIA drives). I don't have a floppy drive, but I do have
>compact flash and an adapter.
You'll need a floppy, or a friend who has one that you can borrow, or find
someone on the net who would be willing to accept your shipment of drives
and disks and put it all together. (-:
Penpoint starts by booting from floppies, and it then goes on to setting up
your pcmcia hard drive. You miiight be able to hand-assemble it, as it
runs on top of a FAT filesystem and seems as if it might use the regular
ms-dog booter to start up. I haven't tried it that way -- I just booted from
the floppy images.
For OS/2, you might be able to install from a CDROM source, if you can get your
hands on an OS/2 cdrom, or mount one over the net. The version I have
is pre-warp and doesn't have networking support, which makes it kinda pointless
for me to fool with it further. I can't remember if I tried installing the
pen extensions on it -- if I did, they didn't work quickly so I gave up.
W95 works OK, but I haven't found a decent input program for it yet.
Windoze for Pen Confusing 2.0 does the input job as well as Microchess did
the chess-playing job on the KIM-1 back in the day. Paragraph's Pen Office
seems as if it might have a little promise, but you'd still do better
doing Grafitti input on your Palm Pilot for data entry.
andy
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