[vcf-midatlantic] anyone id this laptop? 1994-ish

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 03:57:59 UTC 2021


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 at 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 at 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 at 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.
>


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