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Original Japanese Preload |
When it arrived, my model YDW PC110 was preloaded with Japanese DOS and Windows 3.1. After booting the machine only a handful of times in total, and making no intentional changes to the software setup, I backed up all the files to a ZIP disk, for future reference. Note that the ZIP directory was created by me with drivers for the ZIP drive. I have listed these files here, with a description of some of them that I recognise.
Click here for a full contents listing, or here for the major configuration files.
The root directories are as follows:
| Directory | Contents |
| COSESS | Cosession Host v6.5i for DOS - used by IBM for dial-in maintenance (subject to Helpware membership) |
| DISKETTS | Diskette images used by Diskette Factory to make a standard preload installation set. Uses standard IBM .DSK format, and 1.44MB diskette images. To manually unpack the diskettes, use LOADDSKF.EXE, as in LOADDSKF DISK_1.DSK A: |
| DOS | PC DOS/V 7 |
| EASYFAX.LIT | EasyFax Lite (!) |
| ETC | Contains backup copies of configuration files, like CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, and more. |
| FACTORY | Diskette Factory - provides a graphical program under Windows for selecting sets of diskettes to create. Uses files held in the DISKETTS directory. |
| PTP110 | Contains only the Windows Large Pointer program - technically unnecessary when you realise that the video drivers can do this anyway! |
| TRANXIT | TranXit v1.03 - InfraRed file transfer software. |
| WINDOWS | Windows 3.1J. |
| ESS488 | AudioDrive support. |
Click here for a full contents listing, and here for the major configuration files.
The root directories are as follows:
| Directory | Contents |
| DOS | PC DOS/V 7 - stripped down to basic files needed for booting. |
| EZPLAY | PCMCIA drivers. |
| PW | PersonaWare |
One of the diskettes supplied with the PC110 will boot to DOS/V, and has a menu that allows you to rebuild the 4MB flash drive. The bad news is, it's all in Japanese. However, you can see what I can make of the content of this and the other PC110 diskettes in What's on the diskettes?