Are there still users of the CF-27, CF-28 or CF-M34 ?

Some months / years ago I posted several topics (or replied to existing topics) concerning the mighty CF-27, CF-28 and CF-M34 toughbooks.

I noticed that since a while, there aint not much new posts about these machines.

therefore i made this new topic. For newcommers , but also for veterans who like these 3 machines.

Post your current toughts, mods, questions etc here.

 

and for anyone that did not check out this http://forum.notebookreview.com/pan...sting-ultimate-toughbook-resource-thread.html ADOR has a great FAQ on the 34 . Check it out here ~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - TBT CF-M34 FAQ

 

Their are still a few I am sure, but it's hard to grab the old machine when you have a newer machine ready to rock. Lately I have been clearing out my single core machines with IDE drives. Toughbooks included. The ones I have decided to keep are CF-17 with dock and pile of accessories, CF-m34 Mk3(factory new with windows 2000), CF-m34 Mk7, CF-25 with a ton of stuff, two Mk2 CF-27's for a father son vs project that we haven't got to start yet, coming soon though. CF-28 Mk2 first toughbook, not going anywhere. CF-07 one will be built into my Warthog project, another one is slated to be modded with gps and dropped into another truck. CF-50 mk3 cd/dvd, Floppy, 2.0 pentium m, ati 9600 what more do you need in a old school gaming machine.

As far as future posts you will be seeing both 07's and what I do with them, I am going to update to the unoffical SP5 for windows 2000 and see what I can do to modernize it and get some more life out of it on the Mk3 CF-M34.

On the Mk7 M34 I have three of them. Battery rebuild for all three of them are coming, gobook 2 gps mod, wireless upgrade, one will be linux only, one windows 7 to try out, other will be just a play around platform.

Mk2 CF-27. Both will have the exact same hardware. I will have one the other will be given to my oldest boy. Then a two week contest to see who can tweak the machine fastest, best mods, etc. Then I was going to let NBR vote and decide who the winner is.

The CF-25 will get the battery rebuilt, a 4gb compact flash to replace the hard drive. Looking at a DOS OS for it with a GUI. May try some linux on it also.

I will be keeping two CF-28's. My first one, and one I have put just about every option I want on it. Just play toys.

Since I have got some of my other projects closed these should be started soon.

 

Well the CF-27s that I got from gravitar are gone. Sold them all.
I still have one complete CF-28 Mk2 with added wifi that I never got a battery for. I am going to add GPS to it and have all the parts. (a toy).....(they all are)
One complete and perfect CF-29 Mk5 with GPS and improved wifi.
A CF-30 Mk1 that I just replaced the touch screen on and it is kinda quirky running Windows 7.
A few incomplete 28 & 29 carcasses that I need to get rid of.
All in all not too bad.

Bob

 

Hi guys. I have the old man CF 28 MK3 factory set GPS.

 

Also there is another MK2 where to install the touch screen driver! Who has the driver share, on the official website panasonic missing, can not find, I will be grateful for your help!

 

Here you go...
This is the link for legacy/discontinued Toughbook models.
https://ftps.panasonic.com/
Username: drivers
Password: Toughbook32

 

toughbookdrivers.com was also a good site for old drivers. I see the page is parked by godaddy now. May be gone forever now.

 

Thank you toughasnails and ADOR but nothing like the driver on these sites is not!

 

Sorry....check this one https://ftps.panasonic.com/

Username: drivers
Password: Toughbook32



View attachment 105690

 

Sad. All folders is all empty!

 

What are you using...w2000 or xp ?

 

Panasonic Toughbook Computer Support Downloads

The Mk3 drivers are still there, They should be the same. The hardware is almost identical, just a larger P3 CPU.


If this still doesn't work I have them backed up on a disk and can see about mailing it.

 

I guess you are right, they are all empty. I even tried other models and they are empty too.

 

They took a lot down a while back. They even had a folder for windows 7 on a Mk2 19 with 64 bit but took that down. Got that zip file still put up.

 

I have a driver for the MK3 but it does not fit!

 

Have you have been extracting the file with winrar or 7zip and then loading it though the mouse drive manually on device manager?

 

I keep my 17 on the truck just in case the new fangled 31 with all the bells and whistles goes down. What OS are you running on the 17?

 

I don't have anything right now on the 17. Still got to swap the screen out, flickers. Other than that it all works and I have factory dvd, floppy, dock, etc for it. I was going to use a DOS with GUI or some kind of Linux on it. What do you have on yours?

 

The original 98 build.

 

I still have a CF-27 MK IV, but I haven't used it in quite some time

As for my CF-28 MK2, it's the only computer I use for my Twitter and I still carry it around and use it in public sometimes. Since my Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle doesn't mind USB 1.1 I'm tempted to just tether it to my phone to save on using the PCMCIA card.

I think that finding good Panasonic batteries for the CF-28 is what is preventing me from using it too often, that and the good batteries I do I have I only operate on High Temperature mode.

Panasonic.ca should still have all the drivers for all the CF-28 marks, it's where I get mine.

 

I have a lot of prior customers still using their CF-28s and CF-18s for diagnostic stuff. Heck... I just finished building 3 CF-29s for a prior customer for use in oil fields in Alaska. I think they use them to diagnose their equipment.

 

Still have 2 CF-25's, but am not currently using them or my CF-27 (all MS-DOS based)

Running a CF-28 on a ham radio for HF data, and just bought a second one to program older radios.

Running a CF-18 MK4 as primary Windoze computer, and just bought a CF-18 MK1 for experimenting (and it came with original discs!)

Somewhere I have a CF-P1 also….

Everything else is Mac…

Brian