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Article #147Re: Mommy, what's a Vectra?
From: William E. Westfield
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1986 11:32
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1986 11:32
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The HP150 is a perfectly reasonable and fairly nice MSDOS based computer that you can do some neat stuff with, but it isn't very compatible with ANYTHING, and few people are writing software for it. In particular, though it has an 8088 and runs MSDOS, it is not at all compatable with the IBMPC at BIOS level or lower. The touch screen is initially neat, but not very useful. Disk IO is through HPIB interfaces, and is slow (though it is supposed to have been improved significantly since the version taht I am running on mine. Sigh). The VECTRA is supposed to be completely IBM PC/AT compatable, down to the bus, I think. I know less about it. It might be worthwhile. BillW ...glacier!navajo!billw BillW@Score.Stanford.edu
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!glacier!Navajo!billw From: billw@Navajo.ARPA (William E. Westfield) Newsgroups: net.micro.hp Subject: Re: Mommy, what's a Vectra? Message-ID: <495@Navajo.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 06:32:27 EST Article-I.D.: Navajo.495 Posted: Mon Apr 7 06:32:27 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Apr-86 22:29:05 EST References: <11686@watnot.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University Lines: 15 Summary: HP150 vs Vectra