Veridata OptiLite 486S / 50

I want to tell the respected habr-community about a retro laptop born in 1991. By the way, Google will not give you clear information not about Veridata, not about the OptiLite 486S / 50 laptop itself. Interestingly, the domain veridata.com belongs to Oraklu. But our talk today is not about that ...




Once, among rubbish and junk, I found this handsome man :) Without a battery with a dead screen and slightly worn, but alive.

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On board, Windows 95 is lazily spinning, Wolfenstein 3D and Adom are running briskly, Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 are presented from office applications, and Turbo Pascal works fine as well.

Actually filling:
486SLC2-50MP 50 MHz processor
RAM 4Mb
Hard 200Mb
Screen b / w matrix with grayscale (almost dead)

Several photos with a hedgehog (1000N) for sizes

Now examine the interfaces.

There are floppy'k modem


LPT port with brightness and contrast twisters


S-video output, COM port and connector for b / n

And so, let's break to the autopsy ...

First of all, we remove the cover, under which the RAM, made, by the way, by Toshiba conglomerate


Then unscrew the modem


And now nothing prevents us, turning away a couple of bolts, tilt the keyboard and see this miracle


Immediately struck by the processor, produced by the American Artel Cyrix. As the wiki kindly reports, Cyrix was absorbed in 1999 by Taiwanese company VIA Technologies. Peace be upon Cyrix


After a little more war with the bolts and unscrewing the socket with the LEDs, to which the screen is attached at the same time, you can find a hard disk (for some reason stuck with tape) of the well-known Seagate office


A couple of common photos finally




I almost forgot to mention the plastic from which the case is made: pleasant to the touch, rough (I have never met such a person before), quite marks. Generally interesting material for enclosures.

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