Micom 2000
Veteran Member
I am a big fan of the Dauphin DTR (DeskTop Replacement) notepads. I have 2 of them and a parts machine. They can be used as a standalone notepad with a stylus(fugitso-type) and an on-screen keyboard, but also have a miniture external KB and an external fdd. They came with Pen for Win 3.1 with character-recognition capabilities. I have also added an Iomega PP zip drive and a Microsolution BackPack CD with an ESS sound card in it.
Their drawbacks are a small 60M HP Kittyhawk HD and a demanding use of batteries. I have a bulky shoulder-pack rechargeable battery unit I salvaged from an electric weed-eater and the DTR uses a 12v adaptor so I can use it in the wildeness without worry. I do want a serial GPS receiver which were once common tho.
Also is the problem that should I install an abreviated copy of Win 95 I would have to give up it's Pen capabilities as documented here : http://www.pencomputing.com/developer/winpen20_secret.html
since MS in it's wisdom didn't include the Pen driver that had been written but left it up to Pen manufacturers to issue their model-specific issues, which Fugitso, IBM and some others did do.
At that point Dauphin was at the edge of bankruptcy and that wasn't a priority. Oh well.
In perusing OS/2 sources recently however I found that IBM had issued Pen drivers for both OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. Since OS/2 had a multiple-boot program, it occured to me that I could install OS/2 on my Zip drive, and perhaps later on the KittyHawk if it works out, and alternate OS's on the Zip drive cartridges. Linux or BSD for example. Should I screw up, I have the second DTR as a backup as well as a complete set of installation disks. OS/2 also has a multitude of free apps available, surely much more than my simple needs require.
There are also hacks to replace the KittyHawk with an ATA Microdrive and the DTR has a PCMCIA compatible BIOS according to the documentation, so a flash drive would be possible. There was also an ethernet hardware option which I unfortunately don't have AS YET.
Has anyone ever used OS/2 on a Pen-capable machine ? OS/2 on a notepad would be cool.
Lawrence
Their drawbacks are a small 60M HP Kittyhawk HD and a demanding use of batteries. I have a bulky shoulder-pack rechargeable battery unit I salvaged from an electric weed-eater and the DTR uses a 12v adaptor so I can use it in the wildeness without worry. I do want a serial GPS receiver which were once common tho.
Also is the problem that should I install an abreviated copy of Win 95 I would have to give up it's Pen capabilities as documented here : http://www.pencomputing.com/developer/winpen20_secret.html
since MS in it's wisdom didn't include the Pen driver that had been written but left it up to Pen manufacturers to issue their model-specific issues, which Fugitso, IBM and some others did do.
At that point Dauphin was at the edge of bankruptcy and that wasn't a priority. Oh well.
In perusing OS/2 sources recently however I found that IBM had issued Pen drivers for both OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. Since OS/2 had a multiple-boot program, it occured to me that I could install OS/2 on my Zip drive, and perhaps later on the KittyHawk if it works out, and alternate OS's on the Zip drive cartridges. Linux or BSD for example. Should I screw up, I have the second DTR as a backup as well as a complete set of installation disks. OS/2 also has a multitude of free apps available, surely much more than my simple needs require.
There are also hacks to replace the KittyHawk with an ATA Microdrive and the DTR has a PCMCIA compatible BIOS according to the documentation, so a flash drive would be possible. There was also an ethernet hardware option which I unfortunately don't have AS YET.
Has anyone ever used OS/2 on a Pen-capable machine ? OS/2 on a notepad would be cool.
Lawrence
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