Portable computers of the 80s
As he understood on his balcony and found a number of laptops of the 80s. At one time, the former most hi-end devices costing several thousand dollars each. Now just interesting artifacts of his era. Were found:
Compaq Portable 286
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And:
Toshiba T1200 (left)
Zenith Minisport HD (right)
All-in-one laptop computer with built-in CRT (black and green) monitor.
That's how it looks in the assembled state.
At one time had to do with the Colombian University.
In those days, the Americans did not even think that the characters of other languages on the keyboard could be, the more they were afraid of Russian all the same. And our users found interesting exits. Here Russian letters are soldered with a soldering iron and tinted in red.)
The laptop was equipped with a 5.25 "hard drive Seagate ST-225 with a capacity of 20 MB.
That's how it looks compared to the usual 3 "disc.
And by thickness.
Fastened hard to such a controller here.
The processor in the car was quite small. On the board, it was attached without a radiator and without a fan, and at the same time it was not particularly heated, almost like an Intel Atom)
By abbreviations you can see that this is a 286 processor, 8 MHz.
Also found:
Screen: LCD 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 characters
Looks like a regular netbook.
dimensions in comparison with modern CDs and HDDs and its built-in 2-inch HDD.
One of the most ancient ancestors of modern PDAs, smart phones, translators and netbooks.
The question with the Russian keyboard was solved better than in the previous case, the Russian letters are typed on a typewriter and glued. Where do we have in the early 90's to take the printer)
Ate from such a battery. Judging by the statements of witnesses kept 2.5 hours from one charge.
It was completed with LPT, COM, CGA connector for the monitor and with a special connector such as for a modem.
Screen: LCD 640 x 320 pixels or 80 x 40 characters
Here the question with Russian letters was the most civilized here are pasted real Russian letters.
Connectors 2x LPT, COM, CGA for the monitor, the input for the modem, as well as video output type tulip and audio output.
Compartment for two 5-inch devices. Or 2xFDD or 1xFDD and 1xHDD
It looked like the predecessors of the current notebook netbooks, smartphones, etc.
The photos were taken long ago for one of the forums, the material was lost somewhere on the Internet. There were no originals of photos in high resolution, they disappeared along with a broken hard drive.
All these computers moved from the balcony to the country)
Compaq Portable 286
')
And:
Toshiba T1200 (left)
Zenith Minisport HD (right)
Compaq Portable 286
All-in-one laptop computer with built-in CRT (black and green) monitor.
- Processor: Intel 286 R80286-8
- The size of RAM: 640 KB
- Hard disk: Seagate ST 225 20 mb
- Date of assembly of a particular model: September 13, 1985
- OS: DOS 3.0
- Weight: 12.5 kg
That's how it looks in the assembled state.
At one time had to do with the Colombian University.
In those days, the Americans did not even think that the characters of other languages on the keyboard could be, the more they were afraid of Russian all the same. And our users found interesting exits. Here Russian letters are soldered with a soldering iron and tinted in red.)
The laptop was equipped with a 5.25 "hard drive Seagate ST-225 with a capacity of 20 MB.
That's how it looks compared to the usual 3 "disc.
And by thickness.
Fastened hard to such a controller here.
The processor in the car was quite small. On the board, it was attached without a radiator and without a fan, and at the same time it was not particularly heated, almost like an Intel Atom)
By abbreviations you can see that this is a 286 processor, 8 MHz.
Also found:
Zenith Minisport HD
Screen: LCD 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 characters
- Processor: Intel 80C88 @ 4.77 / 8MHz
- RAM: 1 MB
- Hard Drive: 2-inch Conner CP-2024 20Meg HD
- OS: DOS 3.3
- Weight: 2.7 kg
- Production Started: 1989
Looks like a regular netbook.
dimensions in comparison with modern CDs and HDDs and its built-in 2-inch HDD.
One of the most ancient ancestors of modern PDAs, smart phones, translators and netbooks.
The question with the Russian keyboard was solved better than in the previous case, the Russian letters are typed on a typewriter and glued. Where do we have in the early 90's to take the printer)
Ate from such a battery. Judging by the statements of witnesses kept 2.5 hours from one charge.
It was completed with LPT, COM, CGA connector for the monitor and with a special connector such as for a modem.
Toshiba T1200
Screen: LCD 640 x 320 pixels or 80 x 40 characters
- Processor: Intel 80C88 @ 4.77 / 8MHz
- RAM: 1 MB
- Hard Drive: 2 inch 20mb
- OS: DOS 3.3
- Weight: 5.2 kg
- Production Started: 1987
Here the question with Russian letters was the most civilized here are pasted real Russian letters.
Connectors 2x LPT, COM, CGA for the monitor, the input for the modem, as well as video output type tulip and audio output.
Compartment for two 5-inch devices. Or 2xFDD or 1xFDD and 1xHDD
It looked like the predecessors of the current notebook netbooks, smartphones, etc.
The photos were taken long ago for one of the forums, the material was lost somewhere on the Internet. There were no originals of photos in high resolution, they disappeared along with a broken hard drive.
All these computers moved from the balcony to the country)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/79973/
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