Anyone ever seen one of these?

Where is this little beauty in the configurator?

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CAP

 

Never seen it before, looks like something old school before the CF-27s, also looks like junk lol

 

The precursor to Atari and Pong!

 

depending on how tiny it is, i can think of many uses for something like that.

 

That thing is a pile!

 

The first serious toughbook was the cf-25




Alex

 

Wonder what happened to the CF-26?

 

Thats interesting
I would think it has to do with asian thinking on good/bad numbers
The cf-w series skipped the 6 as well


Alex

 

From Wikipedia:

"Six
The number 6, pronounced "liu" in Mandarin is pronouced the same as sleek, or fluent in Mandarin, and is therefore considered good for business. The number 6 also represents happiness."

I guess they don't want happy Toughbooks.

 

I ate it for breakfast

 

Well toughbooks are for the "real world", and seeing as the real world isn't usually a friendly happy place, maybe Panasonic was just being realisitic lol

 

i have thought about the cf-26 myself a while back and figured it was a special issue for the "men in black",area 51 and captain Kirk, or maybe had a camera and solar panel attached to it, then launched out of orbit, then it was renamed to "Voyager 2" and is still computing today!
chuck

 

Chuck…

I think you’re on to something here
Area 51, could be,
A camera and solar panel attached to it, then launched out of orbit
Well thats funny and it reminds me of a famous Quote

“It looks like I've seen that before, Oh! yah, the transformer movie.”

Credit: ohlip



Alex

 

There must a bunch of them floating around out there and it's not just the CF-26, every single product line has skipped the CF-X6 series.

The plot thickens..

 

I thought Mandarin was a Chinese dialect? Isn't Panasonic Japanese, out of Kobe Japan? So I wonder what the significance of the number 6 is in JAPANESE culture?

 

You are right I googled "Asian Numerology" and that is what came up so the 6 may have a different more ominous meaning in japan.

 

Apparently Four and Nine are both bad mojo in Japan for the way it's pronounced (Four is pronounced the same as the word for Death, and Nine means suffering or pain). Also on the list is of course the number 13. Number 7 however is a good luck number, but I was unable to find anything on the number 6. If anyone else can shed light on this mystery, please do. This is really going to bug me now for no reason whatsoever. I just gotta know!

 

Then why did they make the CF-19 and CF-29? Were the makers masochists at the time?

 

Ever been hit over the head with a 19 or 29... YOUD BE D-E-D, DEAD MAN!!!