Inglés text below. bought not long ago on ebay this jewel of portable, in fairly good condition. According to the website , I have in hand a computer that was manufactured between 1987 and 1992, which I'm afraid I can not ever know the exact year of my particular computer. The technical, as I could ascertain is this: Intel 80C86
640 KB RAM 2 medium-density floppy drives (720KB) 1 serial port, 1 parallel port
text display 80 columns by 25 lines
The team I was without power supply. Requires 12V and 2.2A, according to the sticker of the equipment. I am using a universal power supply, 12V and 12 A, so I do not have problems :-)
battery, as expected, is totally dead, so I dismounted to see if it can be replaced, and the answer is yes, because be installed inside the plastic housing 6 rechargeable AA batteries, which provide the necessary 7.2V. This is even the near future.
The disk drives came to me useless! Work but are unable to read anything. I have the suspicion that has been misaligned with the years. If any kind reader can tell me how to fix this would be infinitely grateful. I've tried to replace them, but use a proprietary connector 26-pin, instead of the standard 36. As I could find via google, it is feasible to produce an adapter to install a modern disk drive on this computer, if anyone knows anything, would also be very very grateful.
In theory, the team had MS-DOS 3.3 in ROM, but this does not carry it, and it seems that there was indeed no such ROM versions. A real shame, because to have had the problem of disk drives would not be so serious. I have not been able to find anything more about it.
Inglés text.
Not too long ago, I buyed in ebay this fantastic laptop, in very good shape.
Acording to the web
Old Computers, i have in my hands to system built between years 1987 and 1992, so I'm afraid I'll never be able to know the precise year of my system. The technical specifications, as long as i've been able to find out:
Intel 80c86 Processor
640 KB of RAM 2 half density floppy drives (720KB) 1 serial port, 1 parallel port
text screen, 80 columns by 25 rows
The system arrived without power supply. Acording to the label in the system, it needs 12V and 2.2A. I'm using an universal power supply, with 12V and 12A, so I don't think I'll run into problems :-)
The battery, as spected, is totally dead, so I've unmounted it, to see if its possible to susbtitute it, and the answer is yes, because its possible to install inside the plastic case six rechargeable AA batteries, that give the necessary 7.2V. This is for a near future.
The floppy drives arrived useless. They work, but they are unable to read anything. I thing that maybe the drives are miss-aligned because of the years. If some gentle reader cant help me how to solve this problem, I'll be endlessly grateful. I've tried to substitute it, but they use a 26 pin propietary connector, instead of the standar 36 pin connector. As long as I've been able to find out, it is possible to make an adaptor, so I can install a modern drive in this system. If somebody knows anything about this adapter, I'll also be much much grateful.
In theory, the system has installed a ROM with ms-dos 3.3, But Does not this particular machine has it, and it Seems That There Actually WHERE Without this ROM versions. A real shame, Because with this ROM, the floppy problem Would not Have Been so critical. I've Unable to find anything more about this subject.
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Overview of the team on.
The system, powered on.
Top view of your computer without the battery.
Upper view of the system, Without the battery.
Right View, we can see the 2 disk drives.
Right side, the two floppy drives Are Clearly vissible.
Top view, with the screen closed and the battery pack up equipment. Upper
view, with the screen closed and the battery pack over the system.
Rear view.
Rear view.
Vista right, with the screen closed and the battery pack.
Right side, with the screen closed and the battery pack.
Vista left.
Left side.
batteries removed. Above left is a detail tab of the battery. As you can see, the switch is in the battery does nothing, it is only an indicator. The unarmed
batteries. Upper left There's a detail with the battery specs. As Can Be seen, the switch in the battery does nothing, it's only an indicator.
keyboard, and compared with a standard keyboard. :-) I love The keyboard, and the keyboard Compared to a standard one. I love it :-)
The interior, as it is to remove the main case.
The inside, as you can see it when to Removing the main case.
Details of the connections of the power supply. Detail of
the connections of the power supply.
monitor connections. Independent eye to the main connector cable is the one that feeds the backlight, do not forget to plug.
The screen connections. Look for the independent from the main cable connections, ITS the One That Powers the backlight, dont forget to plug it.
rear connectors. Monitor 9-pin, composite video, parallel port, serial port, external keypad, and external floppy connector.
The rear connectors: 9 pin screen, composite video, parallel port, serial port, external numeric keyboard and external floppy connector.
base plate.
The main board.
1: rear port connector
2: floppy A
3: floppy B 4:
reset button 5: drive selector 6: control of display contrast 7: I do not know
8: 9
monitor connector, monitor connector lighting
10: keyboard connector
11: 12
power supply connector, modem connector
13: hard disk connector (not sure)
14: Status LED connector
15: second connector
power
1: rear connector port
2: A floppy
3: B floppy
4: reset switch
5: disk drive selector
6: control screen contrast
7: I do not know
8: screen connector
9: backlight connector
10: keyboard connector
11: power supply connector
12: modem connector
13: hard drive connector (I 'm not sure)
14: state LED connector
15: second power supply connector
A summary of the investor. Is as it left the scanner, did not need to touch anything. 12 volt light comes on and happily :-)
Riding
antennas have been used DBi Stella Doradus, 19 on each side of the link. The distance covered is approximately 400 meters.
the label on this website.