This page was created to be an information source for one of the most innovative laptops even invented - The Compaq Concerto. This page is also heavily slanted to get the Concerto to work with a real OS - OS/2.
Out of hard drive space
? Need more room for those 3 OSs you have on you concerto.
Some people have replaced their concerto hard drive with larger
models. The
Seagate
ST9655AG 500 MB Hard Drive is a
drop in replacement for the normal concerto hard drives.
WARNING: Concerto 16 meg memory modules Many concerto
users that have upgraded their machine with 16 meg memory
modules have had trobles getting them to work. Some statistics
from the net suggest that about 2 out of 3 people get bad memory
modules the first time round. Some suspect a bad module design.
So if you are going to take this plunge, be sure to buy from
somewhere that has a good return policy.
Broken Handles - It seems that broken plastic handles and other
plastic parts are pretty common with the concerto.
Here is some suggestions on how to identify if
your handle could be suseptible to break and how to prevent this problem.
Suspend mode and OS/2 - This is a cry for help from all of us
who use OS/2 on the concerto. So far, there are roomers of a
patch to the Concerto ROM that will fix the problem with OS/2 and
suspend mode. No one, however, has found a patch that works.
Here is a description of what has been tried so
far. If you have any suggestions, please E-mail me at the bottom link.
So what is you favorite pen program? What programs out there
are really design / work well with a pen interface. I am
compiling a "short" list for all of our fellow pen users!
Please submit your recommendations
here.
Pen Specs This is the technical description of
how the Concerto's pen supposedly works. Should be helpful for people
trying to write custom drivers (Linux?)
Windows 800X600 mode Text file that
describes how to place the Concerto in 800X600 mode in windows. Requires
and external monitor.
Flexconnect's SCSI II Port Some info about
the SCSI II port cabling for the Compaq Flexconnect docking station.
Pen for Win95 Description of how to get pen
extenstions working under Windows 95
Pen for OS/2 Short description of Pen for OS/2
version 1.03 with ordering information
Pen for OS/2 config.sys List of changes
that Pen for OS/2 makes in the OS/2 config.sys
Chris Browning