smp
Veteran Member
I took a little bit of a look and I didn't see any recent postings about a Gridcase 3 so here goes my newbie question:
I see what appears to be a nice clean Gridcase 3 on eBay. I am not familiar with the value out there in fantasyland, but the value of this one will be determined between me and the Seller.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331494094957?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
The questions that have come up for me are:
Looks like the Gridcase 3 was a floppy only system? At least, that's what this one seems to be.
This machine has MS Word in ROMs. However, the Seller says that when he issues the command C:/Word (I believe he meant A:/Word command) the sign-on screen shows but then it does not fully load. He appears not to know how to operate the machine, or he is playing the dummy. Does anyone here know how this is supposed to operate?
I have not been able to find any documentation online for this machine. Can anyone offer any pointers to any?
The Seller seems to have some sort of floppy disk that the machine can boot from. Does anyone know if this machine will use pure MS-DOS? If so, what version? Should it be able to go with MS-DOS 3.3? Could I hold any hope that MS-DOS 5.0 or 6.2 might work?
Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance you may have to offer. Thanks for listening.
smp
I see what appears to be a nice clean Gridcase 3 on eBay. I am not familiar with the value out there in fantasyland, but the value of this one will be determined between me and the Seller.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331494094957?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
The questions that have come up for me are:
Looks like the Gridcase 3 was a floppy only system? At least, that's what this one seems to be.
This machine has MS Word in ROMs. However, the Seller says that when he issues the command C:/Word (I believe he meant A:/Word command) the sign-on screen shows but then it does not fully load. He appears not to know how to operate the machine, or he is playing the dummy. Does anyone here know how this is supposed to operate?
I have not been able to find any documentation online for this machine. Can anyone offer any pointers to any?
The Seller seems to have some sort of floppy disk that the machine can boot from. Does anyone know if this machine will use pure MS-DOS? If so, what version? Should it be able to go with MS-DOS 3.3? Could I hold any hope that MS-DOS 5.0 or 6.2 might work?
Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance you may have to offer. Thanks for listening.
smp