Martin Hepperle
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Several software products had been available for the HP 110 and the HP Portable Plus.
Some of them came on floppy disks and some in (EP)ROMs.
A few are available for example on hpmuseum.net or on www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu.
However, there are still many programs missing. While many generic MS-DOS programs run on the portables (and the HP 150) all programs which directly access hardware cannot be used.
Therefore, HP and some software vendors adapted some software packages (for example GWBASIC, or Microsoft Word 1.1) to the hardware of the HP portable computers (which ran MS-DOS 2.11, but were not IBM-PC compatible).
So: could those of you, who own a HP 110 or a Portable Plus check their inventory for any software which is not yet available?
For example Microsoft Word 1.10 must exist somewhere in form of two (H/L) ROMs for the Portable Plus and alternatively as two floppy disks for the the Portable Plus.
[There is a version of Word 1.1 for the HP 150 desktop computer on hpmuseum.net but this is not suited for the hardware of the portables. They also have the "Utilities" disk for this software, but not the HP 110 program disk.]
Besides HP and OEMs there was also the company "Personalized Software" which provided excellent support, soft and hardware for these machines. They also provided 3rd party software on disks and in ROMs, which may have been installed in the Portable sitting on your shelf.
A typical Portable Plus would display the standard ROM software in his PAM screen:
Any additional items may be in additional 3rd party ROMs. These would be interesting to image.
These might be interesting ROMs:
And on disks:
Martin
Some of them came on floppy disks and some in (EP)ROMs.
A few are available for example on hpmuseum.net or on www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu.
However, there are still many programs missing. While many generic MS-DOS programs run on the portables (and the HP 150) all programs which directly access hardware cannot be used.
Therefore, HP and some software vendors adapted some software packages (for example GWBASIC, or Microsoft Word 1.1) to the hardware of the HP portable computers (which ran MS-DOS 2.11, but were not IBM-PC compatible).
So: could those of you, who own a HP 110 or a Portable Plus check their inventory for any software which is not yet available?
For example Microsoft Word 1.10 must exist somewhere in form of two (H/L) ROMs for the Portable Plus and alternatively as two floppy disks for the the Portable Plus.
[There is a version of Word 1.1 for the HP 150 desktop computer on hpmuseum.net but this is not suited for the hardware of the portables. They also have the "Utilities" disk for this software, but not the HP 110 program disk.]
Besides HP and OEMs there was also the company "Personalized Software" which provided excellent support, soft and hardware for these machines. They also provided 3rd party software on disks and in ROMs, which may have been installed in the Portable sitting on your shelf.
A typical Portable Plus would display the standard ROM software in his PAM screen:
- MS-DOS Commands
- Advance Mail
- Transfer Mail
- MemoMaker
- TimeManagement
- ExecutiveCardManager
- 123 Rel. 2.01
- HP Reflection
- VT Reflection
- HP Terminal
- VT Terminal
Any additional items may be in additional 3rd party ROMs. These would be interesting to image.
These might be interesting ROMs:
- MSWord
- Multimate
- Word Perfect
And on disks:
- Condor database
Martin