Saved from electrolytic drowning, this very nice Panasonic CF-380 Intel 386 laptop. Kind of reminds of
some of those early 90's Tandy laptops and is almost identical to the 1500HD and 2810HD but with a different logic board.
Had a no power issue initially, so opened it up and almost all the SMD caps were leaking. As you'd expect
from Panasonic, alot of Japan branded components and a very well designed logic board. The socketed Intel 386SX chip
was also a rare find.

The board had a Dallas chip, what a relief to find that and not a sea of green muck. Decided not replace all caps and focused just on the ones around the main power components. It was much easier replacing with through hole CAPS as I could route the legs to what was left of the old pads.
I didn't want to damage any of those other components or tracks with hot air. You can see the large black and blue caps that I replaced, the SMD caps are the ones I left and didn't show much leakage.

Next, got the Dremel out and attacked that Dallas chip, what a f..ing mess 😀 I Didn't
remove the chip, left it mounted to the board. Rewired a 2-Pin JST LOSI cable to the battery
pins and re-routed it to somewhere easy accessable.

The machine powers-up now and I get the BIOS copyright message followed by the usual
CMOS settings errors. So it works by some degree and theres no suprises that the hard disk
has failed. I did manage to boot from a DOS floppy disk but I could not figure out how to access
the BIOS setup. After reading some manual online, it seems the BIOS settings are set with
a DOS file named SETUP80N.COM. Well I'm stuck with a floppy only boot for now until I can find
the setup files for this machine. So if anyone has any ideas please post what you know about this
laptop.

BTW I have tried some of the Tandy setup files but they are not supported as I guess the
software checks the BIOS version or model maybe. Found some rare Tandy setup files here:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/setups.html
A few of them worked but messed up the CMOS settings and gave boot errors about memory.