never post personal data here, please.
country is great, I applaud you, me in texas.
I used to work for Philips Semi. so... state side long ago, intel before that for 7 years.
but we need the Service tag model to know what you have.
or all answers are wrong,. in most cases. (oops me wrong)
only XP (newest) asks for F6 floppy, time to upgrade to w7. for sure.
i guess you missed all that bad news in UK
with the XP virus taking down the hospitals there. sad to watch
we are below 1% XP now in usa and falling like rock.
(not counting USA MIL)
ITS DOS 3. right?
the date is set in BIOS, easy, (me wrong hard takes a setup prog)
but the BIOS CMOS NVRAM coin cell battery must be good
and it bet you %100 its not. over 5 years no, 7-10 never good.
the only floppies are found used, disks and drives
there is a USB loopy drive sold, that works. if usb ports are there and work.
is said PC for personal use,or for CNC mill.
usage is important, in all cases. some are used as toy
other on the net,
others only for Word 95.
the PC has drivers at the HP site, i can link you but only with the red arrow data on the tag below.
btw: we are not HP.
DOS 3? 6?
what os,
windows 95/98/w2k/xp/vista/w7/8/10, freedos, o/s2/
XP was the last to ask F6 at install. is that it?
F6 is for drivers. not supported
THEN.
omg, i even repaired those long long ago, thanks for the memories.
suit case PC,
http://www.oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html
running DOS ! 3?
wow, why are you doing this for a museum?
12 whole megaherz then, and 640k of ram Gill Bates said was plenty . we ran WORD STAR THEN !