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I kept the power cable though. in case I ever do run into another... pricing online says these were not that rare, but the power cables are.

welp, booted the pc... typed in time and date... ran a few DOS commands... Everything was great. Pop the floppy in. A:\ [enter] .... okay so far. >DIR[enter] [UNGODLY NOISES] [MAGIC SMOKE] [GLITCHY THEN DEAD SCREEN] power off. eject floppy. unplug power. pickup device. calmly walk outside. lift spawn of satan over my head. spawn of satan is now in many pieces in a dumpster.

Hmm. Cool perspective on it. Would love to explore other early "laptops" to contain a battery and compare specs to those. I just had an interesting thought... I wonder if with a tweak here or there if this could of been (or heck could be with enough hacking) something like an Altair 8800 laptop or even an Apple ][ laptop.... What I'm getting at is, how much of how I look at this as being last gen is actually just because it was marketed to the boring af business world and not sold to the booming video game market or even just the at the time trying to stay underground, but failing at it hacker and hobbyist markets... would changing what was on the ROM and/or changing the 3.5" floppy to a 5.25" one have made this.... epic? Would/could hacking do this today? edit: derp it's 8800 not 2600

I was given, for free, a Panasonic Business Partner CF 150.... AKA the TANDY 1100FD. At fist looks, you think it's a normal mid 80s business laptop, it has pretty last-gen tech for the mid 80s. With it's NEC V20 CPU (an 8086 clone) , 640K RAM, No cache or co-processor (that I'm aware of) and no HDD. Yes, ALL programs (outside of a small bit of boot up utils) must be run from a single 720k 3.5" floppy drive. It's a typical mid-80s business pc.... Built in 1989. Let that sink in... But hey I just ordered Planet X3... Will report back in a bit to tell you how I predict that the floppy drive will "completely fail, successfully" half way through booting. By the way. I was born in 1989, My info of what's "mid 80s" is from google. Please tell me WHY I'm wrong not just that I am. Please also Know the difference between those. Thanks.