leeb
Veteran Member
I spend most of my time in the Tandy section, but I recently acquired a PCP-11 Laptop...
It is a mechanical duplicate of the Tandy/GRiD 1755, one of which I got 'sometime back'... both of which is a rebranded Panasonic...
Unfortunately it also suffers from the power-up issue common to many of the models that use the 16 to 5/-22v converter such as the (tandy) 2810/20 etc., its immedate relative, the Panasonic CF-270 (Business Partner), the aforementioned GRiD and, I suspect, some others.
It also had the expansion RAM card installed as well as what appears to be a good modem, subject to test.
Although the design of the PCP11/1755 is significantly different than the 2810/CF270, I am certain that there is ONE SIMPLE fix that will restore all these machines... and I only need to put enough 'free time' into finding it.
Which will happen soon enough, as I get to go on temporary medical disability during/after the scheduled stem-cell bone marrow transplant coming up soon!
Hopefully before the end of the next year I can publish a 'fix' for all these excellent (IMO) machines!
:D
It is a mechanical duplicate of the Tandy/GRiD 1755, one of which I got 'sometime back'... both of which is a rebranded Panasonic...
Unfortunately it also suffers from the power-up issue common to many of the models that use the 16 to 5/-22v converter such as the (tandy) 2810/20 etc., its immedate relative, the Panasonic CF-270 (Business Partner), the aforementioned GRiD and, I suspect, some others.
It also had the expansion RAM card installed as well as what appears to be a good modem, subject to test.
Although the design of the PCP11/1755 is significantly different than the 2810/CF270, I am certain that there is ONE SIMPLE fix that will restore all these machines... and I only need to put enough 'free time' into finding it.
Which will happen soon enough, as I get to go on temporary medical disability during/after the scheduled stem-cell bone marrow transplant coming up soon!
Hopefully before the end of the next year I can publish a 'fix' for all these excellent (IMO) machines!
:D