vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu (10/16/89)
I just picked up a Zenith Z150(?) portable and I have a few problems: 1) While running Turbo Pascal 4.0 print screen and ^k^p print in upper case. A program run from RAM from the integrated environment which prints works fine however. This is just weird. I think it may be something like Turbo is changing system memory which may not be the same between PC-DOS and Z-DOS. 2) The system was crashing on boot up, it would get through AUTOEXEC.BAT but would crash after the system prompt, with the keyboard apparently working but the keystokes never getting anywheres. I did use the CONFIGUR program and I think that might have been part of it, so I did a SYS from my original DOS disk and that seemed to cure it. Any ideas on what happened here. 3) The system comes with a 320k ram board, there is also a multifunction card with 384k, is there any way I can use the last 64k to het 720k? If not, any one want to buy 9 64k DRAMs? -- Frank Filz Center For Integrated Electronics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu
consp21@bingsung.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover) (10/16/89)
In article <1989Oct16.035532.11535@rpi.edu>, vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu writes: > > I just picked up a Zenith Z150(?) portable and I have a few problems: > [...] > 2) The system was crashing on boot up, it would get through > AUTOEXEC.BAT but would crash after the system prompt, with the > keyboard apparently working but the keystokes never getting > anywheres. I did use the CONFIGUR program and I think that might > have been part of it, so I did a SYS from my original DOS disk > and that seemed to cure it. Any ideas on what happened here. Strange, indeed. Sounds to me like a bad copy of COMMAND.COM or one of the BDOS files (???IO.COM, ??DOS.COM). If a SYS has cured it, you should be on your way. I don't know a heck of a lot about how well DOS works with the compromises necessary to wedge a PC into a notebook. Could anyone tell me what (if, indeed, any) problems could be caused by a laptop environment for DOS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ken Hoover [ consp21@bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu | consp21@bingvaxa.BITNET ] Resident computer jock and Mac hacker, SUNY-Binghamton Bio dept. Senior undergraduate consultant, SUNY-Binghamton Computer Center -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- " The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. " - Harlan Ellison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu (VICC Project (Rose)) (10/17/89)
In article <2518@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp21@bingsung.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover) writes: >on your way. I don't know a heck of a lot about how well DOS works with the >compromises necessary to wedge a PC into a notebook. Oops, I didn't make things too clear, this is an old 8088 Luggable, not the new laptop. > Could anyone tell me what (if, indeed, any) problems could be caused >by a laptop environment for DOS? I can't see that there would be all that many problems other than minor differences in I/O devices. -- Frank Filz Center For Integrated Electronics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu