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From: billw@Navajo.ARPA (William E. Westfield)
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Subject: Re: Mommy, what's a Vectra?
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Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 06:32:27 EST
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Summary: HP150 vs Vectra

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
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