Husky Hunter 16

[shrike]

Digging around a back closet at work, and I have run across a box of old Husky Hunter 16 ruggedized DOS portables. These things are sturdy as hell, but only a couple of them power on. I've found some information about them online, and luckily there was a User Guide in the box as well. Where I am stuck now is getting software onto these. The only storage is battery-backed RAM, with an MS DOS installation and some basic utilities stored in a ROM chip. There is a serial port and a file transfer utility, but I am at a loss to find the PC-side software. It looks like it's been distributed in a file called hcomw.zip, but I can't find an active download for it. Would anyone happen to have a copy they can send along?



For those interested, I did a little teardown and documented it over here: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@shriver/109276297338588018

-- Michael

 

[ajacocks]

I suspect folks here might well be interested in the other machines, booting or otherwise, if you’re interested in selling.

Thanks for the tear down!

- Alex

 

[shrike]

I managed to track down a boot disk image that contains the hcomw program for Husky Computer file transfers. I'm attaching it here for posterity since it was pretty difficult to find.

 

[Qbus]

I remember back in the mid-eighties lots of reporters and journalist used Radio Shack TRS-80 100 computers that looked like that only they had a heavier keyboard. You would write up your story and then upload over a modem back to the company. People did not like the noise that came from the keyboards but looks like that one would have a quiet keyboard although not as nice to type on.

From what I recall not a lot of use for one, think they were like an 8080 or Z80 at best so not like your going to run a bunch of apps on them. And the display although CGA was limited to only three or four lines of text.

 

[Spectreman]

I have one of these myself. At first I could not get the HCOM program on my old DOS PC to talk to the Husky at all.
Then eventually found out the the baud rate on the Husky & PC HCOM needs to be set to 38400, all went smoothly after that. HCOM works very well.