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First post, by songoffall

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I posted about the laptop that was plugged into the mains some time ago.

I now have the said computer in my possession and am planning to resurrect it. Will post photos tomorrow.

It's IBM PC XT-class, quite large, with 80C88 CPU that can be clocked to either 4.77MHz or 8MHz. It's a 16-bit CPU, an upgrade over the 8-bit 8088. The RAM is 640k.

The power circuit will need extensive modifications - I don't have the original power brick and the batteries have been taken out - and I'll see what the capacitor and CMOS battery situation is when I open it up. The laptop is quite damaged and dirty and is literally falling apart.

It also has a 20Mb HDD.

The LCD screen is quite horrible if Youtube is to be believed, but that's to be expected. There's also an RGB/composite port on the back of the laptop.

If you have schematics and repair manuals for ZWL-180 series laptops, I'd be quite thankful. This is my first attempt restoring something this old.

Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/384Mb SDRAM/ESS ES1868F/Aureal Vortex 2
Asus A7N8X-VM400/AMD Athlon XP 2ooo+/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce 4 MX440/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi

Reply 1 of 3, by songoffall

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As promised, here's the beast itself.

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Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/384Mb SDRAM/ESS ES1868F/Aureal Vortex 2
Asus A7N8X-VM400/AMD Athlon XP 2ooo+/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce 4 MX440/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi

Reply 2 of 3, by songoffall

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Ok, does anyone know why the laptop has a slot covered by a removable metallic plate in the back? It looks like 8-bit ISA.

Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/384Mb SDRAM/ESS ES1868F/Aureal Vortex 2
Asus A7N8X-VM400/AMD Athlon XP 2ooo+/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce 4 MX440/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi

Reply 3 of 3, by Dabidoh

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songoffall wrote on 2023-10-10, 10:33:

Ok, does anyone know why the laptop has a slot covered by a removable metallic plate in the back? It looks like 8-bit ISA.

I don't have an answer to the ISA question but I would like to encourage you to finish this restoration! I'm considering buying one of these antiques and wanted to see what problems you ran into.