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Running Diags
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Sifting through the DOS directory I found The Compaq Personal Diagnostics program. This
program went through and checked the functionality of the computer's components. It checked
the memory, system board, display, floppy drives, hard disk which took forever to complete,
serial communications, and the printer port if you had a printer hooked to it. According to
the test this computer is fully functional.
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System Information
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System Information... This program reveals how this computer is configured. It says this computer
has 640Kb Ram, 2 floppy drives, 1 hard disk, 1 printer port, 1 serial port, and than no game adapter
is present.
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Shall We Play A Game?
A Demonstration of Capabilities
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A program using graphics to illustrate the capabilities of this Compaq Portable.
For the time period this was build I found it to be quite impressive. The graphics
ran quite smooth.
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Remember To Park Your Hard Disk
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Something that I had almost forgot... If it were not for the reminder someone taped at
the bottom of the screen, I would not have remembered to park the hard disk. In the old
days it was highly recommended that you park your hard disk before moving your computer.
When old hard drives were powered down the heads remained wherever were. If the drive was
bumped a bit hard the heads could bounce and make contact with the disk possibly destroying
data. This was known as crashing your hard drive. The solution was to move the heads to
the innermost track which was set aside as the parking zone. No data was ever written to
the parking zone therefore no data could get damaged if the heads crashed into it. The
parking of the heads was usually done by a utility program that you ran just before
powering down the computer. In this case the utility was
called shipdisk. Modern drives sense when the power is going down and
automatically park the heads.
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