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Help me troubleshoot a vintage old Japanese all-in-one 486

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First post, by Paradoxpm

Posted on 2023-08-23, 03:34

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Hello everyone.

I’m sure you guys will appreciate this!

Great findings at the thrift store today in Japan. I found this beautiful Panasonic CF-32GP 486 100mhz with 8 megs of ram.
It came with no keyboard, so I connected my trusty old one and a spare ps/2 mouse I had.
It does not boot, and the HDD makes weird noises, but that doesn’t surprise me, but would you look at that?
Mysteries galore!

Is this an IBM PC shoehorned onto a Panasonic TV?
What do I have here? How would I go and make this beautiful machine boot?

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Reply 1 of 5, by Horun

Posted on 2023-08-23, 03:45

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It is booting ! Just not to a disk. Nice find but bet it be hard to find any documentation unless you can read Japanese....
3rd picture shows (my interpretation) insert bootable floppy disk and press F1 <probably wrong but best guess 😁>

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Reply 2 of 5, by Paradoxpm

Posted on 2023-08-23, 03:49

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Well, I can! Haha
Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not provide any support (just called them) since it’s so old (a sticker says 95).
If it indeed is an ibm machine underneath, how would I go and find the correct model for the BIOS disk?

Edit: more pictures from the guts of the beast!

Reply 3 of 5, by dominusprog

Posted on 2023-08-23, 04:23

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What do these buttons do?

https://askpc.panasonic.co.jp/hpc/product/cat … 32_gp_spec.html

A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
Aztech Pro16 II-3D PnP ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!

Reply 4 of 5, by dominusprog

Posted on 2023-08-23, 04:25

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Paradoxpm wrote on 2023-08-23, 03:49:
Well, I can! Haha Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not provide any support (just called them) since it’s so old (a sticker s […]
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Well, I can! Haha
Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not provide any support (just called them) since it’s so old (a sticker says 95).
If it indeed is an ibm machine underneath, how would I go and find the correct model for the BIOS disk?

Edit: more pictures from the guts of the beast!IMG_3498.jpegIMG_3500.jpegIMG_3501.jpegIMG_3503.jpegIMG_3504.jpeg

Onboard Trident chip! Cool 😀

A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
Aztech Pro16 II-3D PnP ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!

Reply 5 of 5, by Paradoxpm

Posted on 2023-08-23, 04:54

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dominusprog wrote on 2023-08-23, 04:23:

What do these buttons do?

https://askpc.panasonic.co.jp/hpc/product/cat … 32_gp_spec.html

The ones on the front?
They control the tv/vcd player portion and the screen.

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