Hello.
Some IT Dpt. was moving into a new office, and a deep cleanse of the old offices ensued whereby several layers of IT trash were lifted. This machine was thus unearthed, it's a Tandon laptop with a Cyrix 5x86 CPU and 4 MB RAM.
It runs Windows 95 with 8 MB RAM with a 512 MB HDD. The screen is a 640x480 DSTN panel, in color!
The manufacturer was "Featron Technologies Corp.", which appears to be from Taiwan. It looks like this model "FT6000A" was produced as a "white label" low-cost laptop, with was then rebranded and sold by several big-name companies, as there are traces in the Intertubes that it was sold with names as varied as: Commodore FT6000A, ACOM FT6000, Maxdata FT6000A, Matsushita FT6000A, and of course Tandom FT6000A as is this unit.
It sports a PhoenixBIOS A486 v1.03.11 from 1992. And yes, the battery for its CMOS memory is dead.
The video is provided by a Chips 65540/545 chipset (with a VGA BIOS v2.6.0 dated from 1995):
This is the Windows 95 device manager view of the system:
Microsoft Office 97 was found installed in the system, and it runs surprisingly fast and snappy in just 8 MB of RAM. Here we have a screenshot of Outlook 97 with it clippy assistant:
These are the two RAM modules it has: 72 pin EDO SODIMM SDRAM, 5 volts, each one 4 MB:
I have already installed a PCMCIA ethernet card in Windows 95, not much I can do apart from pinging IPs, running PuTTY to reach other systems, and mapping network drives to shared Samba folders in my Linux computer...
Oh, I forgot - of course, it has no CD-ROM drive.
So this is the vintage computer I'm currently playing with.
Some IT Dpt. was moving into a new office, and a deep cleanse of the old offices ensued whereby several layers of IT trash were lifted. This machine was thus unearthed, it's a Tandon laptop with a Cyrix 5x86 CPU and 4 MB RAM.
It runs Windows 95 with 8 MB RAM with a 512 MB HDD. The screen is a 640x480 DSTN panel, in color!
The manufacturer was "Featron Technologies Corp.", which appears to be from Taiwan. It looks like this model "FT6000A" was produced as a "white label" low-cost laptop, with was then rebranded and sold by several big-name companies, as there are traces in the Intertubes that it was sold with names as varied as: Commodore FT6000A, ACOM FT6000, Maxdata FT6000A, Matsushita FT6000A, and of course Tandom FT6000A as is this unit.
It sports a PhoenixBIOS A486 v1.03.11 from 1992. And yes, the battery for its CMOS memory is dead.
The video is provided by a Chips 65540/545 chipset (with a VGA BIOS v2.6.0 dated from 1995):
This is the Windows 95 device manager view of the system:
Microsoft Office 97 was found installed in the system, and it runs surprisingly fast and snappy in just 8 MB of RAM. Here we have a screenshot of Outlook 97 with it clippy assistant:
These are the two RAM modules it has: 72 pin EDO SODIMM SDRAM, 5 volts, each one 4 MB:
I have already installed a PCMCIA ethernet card in Windows 95, not much I can do apart from pinging IPs, running PuTTY to reach other systems, and mapping network drives to shared Samba folders in my Linux computer...
Oh, I forgot - of course, it has no CD-ROM drive.
So this is the vintage computer I'm currently playing with.
