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From: bruce@ektools.UUCP (Bruce D. Nelson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.wanted
Subject: Re: How IBM-compatible is the HP 150?
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 12:17:35 EDT
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The diskette format for the original 150's is completely different from
the IBM-PC 3.5 format. If you have an HP-150-II, you can get an MS-DOS
v3.2 which can read/write v3.2 PC-DOS disks.

The HP-150 BIOS is different from the IBM's. However, some well-behaved
PC programs run on the 150. I've sucessfully run ARC, PKXARC, TOUCH, SDIR,
and a bunch of others. Using the PC-shells available from INTEREX, I've
run Norton Utilities and some others.

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