anyone id this laptop? 1994-ish
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg> Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window. Bill
Without knowing the source. It looks like one of the early Grid laptops. I'm pretty sure the game image has been "photoshopped" onto this image, and the original had more or less bezel than what we see here. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop
aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg>
Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window.
Bill
The unique thing is the LCD under and left side of the main LCD, above the keyboard. I tried google image search for 386 and 486 laptop but nothing came back. My Zenith 486SX laptop has a LCD there but it's flat, and it has a tell tale trackball middle of the machine IIRC. Loved the Zenith laptop, it was sexy. Still have it, of course.
Without knowing the source. It looks like one of the early Grid laptops. I'm pretty sure the game image has been "photoshopped" onto this image, and the original had more or less bezel than what we see here.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop
aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg>
Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window.
Bill
I'm not sure that's a screen, there. bp On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:37 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
The unique thing is the LCD under and left side of the main LCD, above the keyboard. I tried google image search for 386 and 486 laptop but nothing came back. My Zenith 486SX laptop has a LCD there but it's flat, and it has a tell tale trackball middle of the machine IIRC. Loved the Zenith laptop, it was sexy.
Still have it, of course.
Without knowing the source. It looks like one of the early Grid laptops. I'm pretty sure the game image has been "photoshopped" onto this image, and the original had more or less bezel than what we see here.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop
aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg>
Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window.
Bill
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
I was even thinking it was a weird angle and could be a diskette (or something) kind of propped up on the keyboard, reflecting the light to look like a little status panel.? b On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 6:25 PM Blake Patterson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm not sure that's a screen, there.
bp
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:37 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
The unique thing is the LCD under and left side of the main LCD, above
the
keyboard. I tried google image search for 386 and 486 laptop but nothing came back. My Zenith 486SX laptop has a LCD there but it's flat, and it has a tell tale trackball middle of the machine IIRC. Loved the Zenith laptop, it was sexy.
Still have it, of course.
Without knowing the source. It looks like one of the early Grid laptops. I'm pretty sure the game image has been "photoshopped" onto this image, and the original had more or less bezel than what we see here.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop
aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg>
Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window.
Bill
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
Bill, going by memory, but it looks a bit like a Bondwell. Sorry I have nothing more. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I looked for this laptop online. But it's hard to find anything exactly like it. Notes: - Look at the hinges on the screen. The left is far wider than the right. I think I had a cheap-o no-name lappy like this back in the 90s with a wide left hinge. - I am not sure that's a display on the hinge, just a bright label, but I could be wrong. - Note the left and right lower corners on the screen. It looks like a small black square of plastic -- maybe a decoration, maybe a cut-out? - The ksys are the interesting thing. The keys next to the space bar have 3 dark keys, one light and the leftmost key is inset a bit from the left. - The game is Prehistorik-2 https://www.freegameempire.com/games/Prehistorik-2 from 1993 I am pretty sure. (see picture) - For a while I thought that maybe the picture is a mirror-image, but the game proves that wrong. Regards, Bob [image: image.png] On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:31 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was sent an inquiry from a visitor to vintagecomputer.net who wanted to know the make/model of this laptop
aa.jpg (284×341) (ibb.co) <https://i.ibb.co/6bdnY7r/aa.jpg>
Anyone have a specific clue? I checked AST, Toshiba, Compaq, Gateway and other laptops I have from that era, nothing matches that little keyboard display window.
Bill
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