Stefano MarinelliMe, and my Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 - my first laptop
DesertFOXThanks to a recent upload to the Internet Archive from "LazArchive", I could finally put together a set of compatible MS-DOS 3.31 floppy disks. The COMPAQ FASTART utility disk from 1989 finally works as intended using the COMPAQ User Programs v6.01 Rev B. This never worked for me before, so it's a huge improvement! π
MS-DOS v3.31 is a particularly useful version of DOS, because it was the first version to support a partition size of over 32MB... up to 512MB!
Link: https://archive.org/details/compaq331
Another Link: https://archive.org/details/ms-dos.ver.-3.31d-oem-compaq.-english
#DOS #MSDOS #COMPAQ #Microsoft #Retro #80s #80er #80s #IBMPC #Emulation #86Box #Tech #DOSGaming #RetroComputing
Zire31 ArchivistI was excited to show off my Compaq iPAQ H3800 Pocket PC browsing some nifty sites, but it seems only Blue Dwarf is loading now.
The Old Net and Frogfind are having issues on my side, and Goto95 no longer exists. RetroReddit is probably being scraped by AI, too⦠T_T
(Sorry for the crusty screen, wiped it off after and the pictures turned dark and Device Center started acting up lol)
Hacker 
HackadayRunning Windows 98 on the iPAQ IA-2 Internet Appliance
Running Windows 98 on the iPAQ IA-2 Internet Appliance https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/running-windows-98-on-the-ipaq-ia-2-internet-appliance/
#Retrocomputing #ReverseEngineering #Compaq #InternetAppliance #Ipaq
#Retrocomputing #ReverseEngineering #Compaq #InternetAppliance #Ipaq
derSammlerWhile having the keyboard removed for some light cleaning, I thought why not upgrade the RAM. It now has 128 MB - which means I can disable the swap file in Windows 95 to prolong the life of the SSD. π
Restore in progress.
This little #Compaq #Armada 1500c just got a 4 GB PATA SSD (yes, a real SSD) and will be a perfect DOS/Win9x machine.
Setting up a virtual Compaq Deskpro 386/25 using yesterday's boot diskette and the latest 86Box. I added a 25MHz 386 CPU, a 387 co-processor, 4megs of RAM, VGA graphics as well as 315MB of disk space.
So far, everything works. This is fun! π
#RetroComputing #PCDOS #Compaq #Deskpro #386DX #Retro #80s #90s #DOSGaming #RetroGaming
Earlier tonight, I was searching the web for the official Compaq diagnostics disk to add a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 to my collection of 86Box virtual machines. This machine's from the late 80s and it does not have anything like a BIOS settings menu, but instead uses a bootable floppy disk instead.
Great success! I did not only find working disk images, but I even managed to download the original files from Compaq to create these disks in the first place. In both 3.5" and 5.25" versions! The files are named "SP0308.EXE" and "SP0316.EXE".
I'm reallly grateful to the community for preserving these files! π
#RetroComputing #Compaq #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #Emulation #86Box #PCEmulation #FloppyDisk
