I have recently acquired an original Compaq Portable. It came with the manuals, the DOS boot disk, and 20 blank disks. It turns on, and the screen and keyboard appear to work fine, however it seems that the DOS disk has decayed beyond use. I would like to replace one or both 5.25 drives with 3.5 drives, but I am not sure which type of drive would be compatible, how to install them, or if HD 3.5 floppies are supported, even formatted as 360k.
Ideally I would do something similar to this: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?42154-Compaq-Portable-I-upgrade
Alternatively, I have tried to find a 5.25 drive for a reasonable price I could stick in a Windows 95 PC and rewrite the boot disk image on that, but found nothing.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is there some other mod I could do to get DOS working?
Ideally I would do something similar to this: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?42154-Compaq-Portable-I-upgrade
Alternatively, I have tried to find a 5.25 drive for a reasonable price I could stick in a Windows 95 PC and rewrite the boot disk image on that, but found nothing.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is there some other mod I could do to get DOS working?