Little Aero Page

"Little" Compaq Contura Aero Page

Attention: This page is no longer updated.
I have no time to keep it up to date or to answer any questions about the Aero.
But I decided to leave this site online, for the information might still be of use for some people.

CPU upgrade for the Aero?

Let me tell you one thing: No Aero has been upgraded up to this moment, although there are many companies offering very expensive upgrades.

Win98 on the Aero?

Even in case it is possible: in my opinion there are more disadvantages than advantages in upgrading.

Software for the Aero

Hardware issues

replacement part list
the Aero's chipsets
information about the Aero's video chips and the 256 color problem

Hard disk related items

what the setup partition looks like
technical information on 2,5"-12,5mm (12,7mm) - Drives
How to connect a 2,5"-drive to a desktop - PC

For those who want to open their Aero:

What you should know before you open your Aero

the Little Aero Survey

the final results from the surveys:

funstuff

the Aero's pop up icons
meet the trolls in the Aero's screen

the Aero-FAQ

The Aero-FAQ 3.2 (ASCII) is to be found here: http://www.reed.edu/~pwilk/aero/aero.faq

other items

determination of the Battery-level
Pictures of the Aero
Unsolved problems with the Aero

Aero-related links

Niccolo Rigacci has found out more about booting an Aero via the serial port. He has put it to http://ulinux.math.unifi.it/~rigacci/aero/
David Murray's new Aero page at http://www.why.net/users/adric/aero/
To Philip Wilk's Aero Homepage
The Aero also is mentioned on Dennis Bring's Homepage at http://hem.passagen.se/bring/contura.htm
and at Andrew Davie's computer page at http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5438/computer.htm
the Aero mailing-list is available as a newsgroup: news://aisb.lists.aero@news.aisb.org

Author: Markus Gebhard
e-mail: markus@jave.de

This page was last modified on 15th August 1998