Fwd: compaq's portable computer

[Fred Cisin]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, james wrote:
> I have the setup disk, but no suitable 5-1/4 drives. My classics are not
> DOS-based :-)
> I seem to recall there was a way to diskcopy using the HD as a buffer,
> if this is true I could dupe the disk on my Portable III. Otherwise I
> would need to get some 5-1/4 disk drives to install in another PC.

DISKCOPY A: A:
(you will need to swap source and target diskettes a few times.
LOTS of times on older versions of DOS.  WRITE-PROTECT the source disk
for when you lose track and put the wrong one in the drive)