The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Before ToughBooks

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Waldeck, Mar 23, 2020.

  1. Waldeck

    Waldeck Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    34
    Messages:
    178
    Likes Received:
    25
    Trophy Points:
    41
    Thought you might like to see a HP Agilent "computer" made 15 BT (Before Toughbooks). A friend and I had 3 of these monsters and the idea was to make a telephone exchange for a local business just before cell phones came out. Oh well, best thought out plans and all that. The black oblong bits on the circuit board were individual solenoids and there were 5 boards to each computer.

    20200323_130727.jpg 20200323_130757.jpg 20200323_130846.jpg

    2 still work and just like a toughbook they were very well made.
     
    Waldeck, Mar 23, 2020
    #1
    UNCNDL1, SHEEPMAN! and Mr. Fox like this.
  2. Wyoming88!

    Wyoming88! Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    47
    Messages:
    366
    Likes Received:
    178
    Trophy Points:
    56
    EVer seen one of these?
     
    Wyoming88!, Mar 23, 2020
    #2
    toughasnails and Mr. Fox like this.