Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-04 Thread Vincent Asaro
it on Windows. I'll give your advice serious consideration, thank you for taking the time to respond. VA On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:28 PM Vincent Asaro wrote: > > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:54 PM dmccunney > wrote: > >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:10 PM Vincent Asaro >&

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:54 PM dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:10 PM Vincent Asaro > wrote: > > > > Dennis - Thank you for all the info! > > You're welcome. > > > I installed Linux Mint via USB on that machine, I just want to be sure >

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
have every intention of punching in every character manually LoL It's one of my Holy Grails, just to use that program :) On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:22 PM dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:28 PM Vincent Asaro > wrote: > > > > Eric, > > > > Thank you for the

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
PS: Will FD recognize the USB ports? What I'm after is to load/run WordPerfect, my favorite word processor, which I now miss dearly. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:11 PM Vincent Asaro wrote: > Thank you! It's this little jobbie: > > > https://www.amazon.com/HP-11-d010wm-2-16GHz-Certified

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
: > I couldn't find the exact specs on this laptop, but I think you mean this > one: > https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-stream-11-pro-g5-notebook-pc-5ga98av-mb > > If this has a BIOS, then it should work. Yes, you'd need to try it with > the USB installer. > > On Sun, May 3,

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
Eric, Thank you for the detailed response! I never played video games, actually, I'm just nostalgic for the text interface experience and I really want to use WordPerfect again but without installing a VM. As long as I can enter code and also load DOS programs via USB, I'll get tons of mileage

[Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Vincent Asaro
I have a little HP11 streaming laptop I'm not using - I used it to try out Linux Mint, now it's redundant - is it a good candidate for FreeDOS? I'd be dependant on the USB ports for I/O. Thank you! ___ Freedos-user mailing list