Flybook V5 laptop (Dialogue Technology) - anyone own one please ?

[Fraser]

I have just become the guardian to a very nice Dialogue Technology Flybook V5 from around 2005 and upon searching for drivers on the Wayback Machine etc, I have come up empty as the drivers were not captured and Dialogue are long gone. Does anyone own one of these unusual miniature laptops please ? If so, would you be willing to share the drivers as I hope to load WinXP or possibly something later onto it.

Any help would be much appreciated 

Fraser

[amyk]

https://www.umpcportal.com/products/Flybook/V5

It looks like a pretty common (at the time) Intel 945 chipset platform. XP should work fine with the standard drivers.

[Fraser]

That is what I am hoping but it is an unusual little ultra small laptop so I feared that there might be some bespoke drivers used, such as for the resistive touch screen and ‘mouse’ functions.

Fraser

[NiHaoMike]

Try booting Linux on it.

[amyk]

That is what I am hoping but it is an unusual little ultra small laptop so I feared that there might be some bespoke drivers used, such as for the resistive touch screen and ‘mouse’ functions.

At that time it would probably be a regular PS/2 interface, or even serial.