This old imitation leather bag was at a car boot sale
It was leaning up against an old 21" CRT TV with no price tag. I looked inside and found....
A very old laptop....
including the charger! The seller offered it to me for the sum of £1.00 (Approx US$1.50)
It's a Panasonic Toughbook CF-41 MkII
Intel Pentium 75MHz CPU, 16MB Ram, 810MB Hard Drive, 800x600 LCD, ESS688 Audio.
The CD-ROM is under the keyboard
The space next to it is for storing a spare CD. How thoughtful!
The floppy drive was in the side
Rather than in the front, as most laptops of the time did.
In the side were two PCMCIA cards
No dongles included unfortulately
A GSM Ready and 56K Dial Up Modem and a "Gold Card" 56K Fax Modem
Without the dongles, which are always impossible to find, these are pretty useless.
Looks like a Compact Flash socket below the PCMCIA slots
Or it could be a memory expansion slot. Who knows.
The bottom of the laptop
Including all the stickers and regulatory information
After removing the cover....
There's the hard drive and the battery
Really chunky 810MB 2.5" laptop drive. IDE of course....
Yes, It's MEGABYTES... Not GIGABYTES! 0.81GB to be precise!
Remember last time saw a laptop battery which use a cable?
Perhaps it was found to be more reliable than gold plated contacts. After all this was a Toughbook.
The aluminium casting date code
This indicates that it was manufactured in January 1996
All the usual ports, except it has no USB ports.
The large connector is for a docking station.
Windows 95!
With Internet Explorer!
Also, the mouse is a trackball
Rather than a touchpad or a 'Nipple' mouse which was commonly found on IBM ThinkPads of that era.
Internet Explorer seemed so insignificant....
It was hidden away in the 'Accessories' menu