This is not really an NA issue, but this reflector may be one of the last
bastions on DOS era experience, so here goes
I have been using an IBM ThinkPad 760C (an early Pentium, circa 1995) since
about 2000, mostly for NA running with DOS 6.22. It's taken a few beatings,
but has kept running in spite of it all. At Dayton, I happened across a guy
with boxes of old laptops, in which I found another 760C in seemingly good
condition for a very cheap price. Once the battery recharged it booted up
fine.
However, its video display is in a smaller mode, shrunk about 20% horizontal
and vertical. Everything is there, just in smaller fonts or size. This is
true whether just DOS commands or running programs such as NA. I found a
setup
program by pressing F1 during bootup, but it is mostly tests (all OK), but
no real settings.
I set off to compare settings on both computers, and now the original
computer has also contracted the problem.
Using an external monitor I get a full size display (on either computer)
when only the external monitor is displayed, but is shrunken when the laptop
display or both displays are chosen.
In the problem mode, the first power up screen (memory size plus IBM
ThinkPad logo) uses the whole screen, but as soon as it looks for a boot device
the
cursor goes to the shrunken screen position.
Any ideas how to unshrink NA, DOS, etc.?
73 - Jim K8MR
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