Awesome job fixing this thing up!! My boyfriend seems to be talking about Toughbooks every other day (he loves laptops and industrial computer equipment) and some of that enthusiasm has rubbed off on me, so it was wonderful seeing one of these things get restored! x3
Ive still got an IBM 380D from 1996 and its built properly and really tough. The case is all metal, no crappy cheap plastic and of course it still works.
panasonic toughbooks are neat because a lot of differrent models actually take the same power supply as a IBM ThinkPad so if you run into one and cannot find a power supply look at IBM ThinkPad power supplies
These were great industrial laptops. We used them in cranes for the size...I'm thinking one model was the 25 the other a 17. I remember replacing the hard drives a few times over the years and they were encased in a clear rubbery shock protector. They took a beating and some high temps but always worked.
This gives me memories of my old school Inspiron 8200 (which was actually a Latitude model) and my Latitude D830. A screw driver, the service manual PDF, and a lot of patience (and some spare parts) and you could replace anything. And I did.
So jealous when I saw that keyboard tray lift out. I'm living with a wonky Enter key because I dread replacing the stick-on chiclet keyboard on my laptop..
Awesome video adrian and what a way to show off a good old tough book with 8 bit keys planet x3 great game for a great laptop 8 bit would be proud you did that keep up the awesome vids
also, I don't know where I got it (it's unbranded) but I've got a great demagnetizer/magnetizer. You rub your screwdriver on one part and it temporarily magnetizes it. Rub your screwdriver on the other half and it demagnetizes it.
Yeah I actually have one of those -- used it today to help although my small screwdrivers are non conductive (For safe working inside power supplies and CRTs) so wouldn't help with those.
As some already said, that tuner card could work under windows 10, but win7 might be better choice overall... You might get lucky with Linux as well, there are drivers for all kinds of tuners - I even managed to run USB one on raspberry pi. Alternatively there are also USB tuners for pal analog as well. Currently I own digital only USB tuner for DVB-T/T2/C. SmartDVB is my software of choice. I also do have winfast analog/dvbt TV card and it works nice with its software (on win7), sadly i can't tune analog signals anymore.
Another great episode. However, magnet polarity shouldn't matter with a steel washer... should it? My guess is that you thought this because the lid was hitting the magnet.
Others have said that -- but it's clearly not the case. When I took it off the computer it would only attach to the washer one way -- the opposite of how I had attached it.
@@adriansdigitalbasement So wanting to verify my sanity, I did my own experiment with a round rare earth magnet, and any surface was attracted to steel. Do you think the washer was magnetized? That's the only thing I can think of.
Why's the washer magnetic to begin with‽ Weird. Regarding the Kapton tape, test them with a heat gun with them covering a thermistor and get their reading. The cheap knockoffs will most likely melt quite easily.
what model toughbook is that? I just bought 10 toughbooks at a police auction. 2 model cf28s and 8 model cf29s. planning on using them for raspberry pi enclosures.
I had few laptops from dell and panasonic (win98 era), and i know that there was function to stretch/upscale smaller resolution for fullscreen. It was Fn+F?(F4,F5 or other). Maybe yours has this function as well.
The only limit is how much RAM your computer can hold, but Windows 98 can't access RAM above 4 GB. (You can still use memory above 4 GB as a RAM drive, however.) Also, if you have more than 512 MB, and try to open an MS-DOS prompt, it'll tell you that you don't have enough memory to run the process. You can fix this by changing the MaxFileCache setting in the System.ini file to reduce the maximum amount of memory that VCache uses to 512 megabytes or less.
I have had issues installing it with too much RAM it would blue screen -- but I think taking the RAM out would let it install then you could reinstall it. Forgot what the amount was but it was 2gb or something higher than most Win 98 machines.
Ah I'm not sure -- I think I just got a ESS Solo 1 PCI card from someone and looked it up and found it wasn't possible -- so just threw it in my box of cards to look at later. The PCI era was pretty annoying. I've found the Yamaha PCI chips are most likely to work.
I'm actually not sure! I've had these little magnets for several years and don't recall anymore. I would think you look on Amazon for neodymium magnet it'll come up.
Thank you. You have awesome videos. I really enjoy watching your videos on reparing and instruction on how things work. Thank you again Adrian's Digital Basement.
3:33 Mitutoyo is known for measurement equipment for the machining industry. ...for Machinists. Like calipers, micrometers, and a lot more. Top three in the industry. That loop is NOT cheap and surely light years above your amazon grade magnifying loops.
I've used their loupes after messing with cheap ones. They make a HUGE difference. Edit: I guess it's technically a magnifier, not a loupe, because you don't hold this in your eye socket like you would a jeweler's loupe.
Adrian, not for nothing you would probably do better with Linux on that TV Card / hardware. There is some real awesome video creation stuff on Linux also. Look at Explaining computers channel for those or look at kdenlive.
Those Toughbooks are great. We use them for diagnostic test computers in the car service business. We have a couple that are well over 10 years old, although we have had to have repairs done to the peripheral ports due to the millions of times of plugging in and unplugging cables.
This is the first disassembly of a CF-27 I have seen. Looks far easier than I thought! The electrolytics on the boards of these are probably top-notch quality (considering the temperature extremes these laptops were made for), so I don’t think they’ll break down quite as badly as some of the others do. Anyway, good video!
I would love to be carrying a Panasonic Toughbook (briefcase mode) while wearing a power suit and standing next to a Pearl white Tesla. The girls would be going crazy.
There is some muppet who keeps trying to sell some of these on my local craigslist for some ridiculous price, he keeps posting them in the tools section, not under electronics, never under computers, "Tools" where people would normally post table saws, hammers, drill presses, etc. Every time I see the ad I flag it, there is enough spam on there already.
Kapton tape can also be used for shielding specific components that might leak RF. i worked for a company whose entire job was modifying computer cases and external peripherals like printers and scanners so that they would not leak any RF that could be useful in a Tempest attack, ie RF eavesdropping. a large amount of the work used a lot of strategically-placed copper fibre gasket tape and Kapton tape. that might give you some ideas as to how to test your Kapton tape?
The Speccy joystick interface will support 2 joysticks. First port (numbers) is known as Cursor Joystick, Second (31) will be Kemspton. These options are in nearly all speccy games....
Hi Adrian! About the joystick interface, yes, you could use both ports at once. For the first one you should choose "Interface II" or "Sinclair Joystick" on the games, for the second one choose "Kempston Joystick".
Make a series called 'pimp my machine' where viewers can send in their retro computers and you give them a complete makeover and if applicable restore them to working order.
I have a Toughbook CF-31 with 8GB of RAM that was refurbished, and I'm honestly surprised it ever needed repairing, as the thing weighs 9 pounds and is basically bombproof!
You can never rely on on a mem test. If you get errors then you know something is wrong, but even if you don't get any error the memory can still be bad.
Wow that is a very nice Loop for magnifying things. I had a loop given to me around 1998. I have taken good care of it & still use it every day. I keep it in a pill bottle with cotton. I've had it around 22 years now
I had those tv cards. I had a system I called Cute Grr 75watts with 4 tv tuners so I could run sage tv and simul record 4 different channels. then comcast killed analog cable and switch to proprietary encrypted boxes. man that sucks. Canceled my service. it was useless to me after that.
You could have put the long magnet on the cover right by the db-9 serial port, so the magnet uses the edge of the db-9 serial port as a attraction point to keep the panel closed. Cringe.. be careful intentionally shaking the mechanical ide-hdd containing device.
It's a Toughbook -- it was designed to be thrown around even while working. I will swap to a CF card, just waiting for the 44 pin to CF adapter to arrive. :-)
@@adriansdigitalbasement I used to have a toshiba into which I put a CF card I ran into al sorts of problems what with not being able to write and read at the same time, solved it by putting the firefox-profile and cache into ramdisk and backing up every time I had to shutdown or reboot. I used to have months of uptime with linux.
@Adrian's Digital Basement It should be noted, that system can take a 256MB PC100 module. I would highly recommend that upgrade! They're cheap and easy. EDIT: I'm putting my money where my mouth is, a 256MB sodimm module is on the way.
@@adriansdigitalbasement You're welcome! I've ordered it so it'll come here first, then I'll ship it along to you. XP on 288MB though? That'll be interesting!
Kapton® is a trademark of DuPont™ Kapton®Standard Tape, 2" 36 yds each ~$150.00 Kapton® Thin Tape, 2" 36 yds each ~$75.00 Kapton® Low-StaticTape, 2" 36 yds each ~$96.00
Good afternoon, I was hoping you could send me in the right place, I took out my old Panasonic CF-27 and put a CF 8GB card in for the HDD but i cannot find anywhere the win98se drivers for it.. I am guessing win95 will do. Where do you goto for your drivers? any help is good thanks. Keep the vids coming, I watch everyone {yes i know this is old but its about the toughbook}
It is pity that no one from the famous yutubers do not want to promote MagiDuck, a very nice DOS modern platformer in Text mode targeting 8088 CGA 256KB ram PC XT
I need to check out that game -- I also saw a text mode Mega Man. Very cool. The nice thing about planet X3 is it works on everything in all video modes and supports pretty much all sound card types.
It's a very fun and convenient benchmark now! "Does it run X3?" can sit nicely alongside "Does it run DOOM?" ^^ ...and, admittedly, there's extra personal fun here since it's cool hearing the music I did for it snuck into a bunch of bigger YT channels :p
disassembly looks the same as any 2000-2010 laptop, I hate it, the stress. touchpad and keyboard ribbon cables, screen hinges, power button so annoying.
The fake "KOPTAN" is alright. I mean, I wouldn't use it if I were NASA and the success of a space mission depended on it, but for most stuff, the material as well as the adhesive is similar enough. The original DuPont/3M Kapton tape is way to expensive. A roll like the fake one you have shown would actually cost $160 from 3M ("5413 AMBER 2 IN X 36 YD") at DigiKey.
Great video! I'm a Toughbook and Itronix GoBook hoarder! Hehe. Loaded Puppy Linux on one Toughbook. Works pretty good. Touchscreen doesn't work... The GoBooks make great music servers, very strong sound for a laptop.
To be honest you were probably better off than looking at the explosion diagram in the simplified service manual (CPD0204031A2) - that's a headache to look at!
Stumbled on this video looking for something else and honestly your personality kept me interested (I am definitely into computer, haven’t heard 95 in so long HOW COOL!)
Hopefully Panasonic/Matshushita used their own electrolytic capacitors in this thing, which unlike the Chicom crap brand ones, last decades, and don't swell up and leak everywhere.
adrian with the hinges, squeeze the center bit with pliers and it will be less floppy and the bar will be more captive, you also need a ratcheting right angle screwdriver(c) any chinese seller on ebay
just force windows 7 or 10 to take the drivers "have disk" "browse for drivers" select inf etc, just make sure if you have a x64 copy of windows, you get a x64 driver, if only 32 bit is available....there is workarounds...but...good luck... or google for alternative drivers for your windows version of preference also, i have a cheap usb tuner that literally can take ANY signal, it was a cheap first gen atsc tuner, 1 of the early 1s when they were still giving $40 coupons out(i still got 2 coupons left!!!) to get converter boxes and it does all of the data/decoding in software, you can get cheap usb tv tuners or dedicated "sdr" usb software defined radio devices, if you ever are at a loss for drivers, look in the device manager in windows>right click on whatever device, click properties and go to "Hardware Ids" in details, it will list devices like USB\VID_147E&PID_2016&REV_0002(this is the fingerprint reader in my laptop), if you google the vid and pid it will get you to the actual hardware drivers or product name, really useful for those creative webcams that printed the model on a little tag on the cord
When you thing the video can't be greater than already is Adrian runs Planet X3 in all its glory and colors! The cherry at the top!!! (sorry my english is so bad)
I worked at a hospital and watched a paramedic drop a toughbook out of the back of the ambulance onto the concrete and then chuck it back inside without a second hesitation. When I made a comment about this, they told me that when they return to their home station that they store it in a bucket of salt water for kicks and giggles. Those things are bulletproof.
Man, everyone should get their own Phil from the UK.
"The REAL Kapton Tape!"
Yes, Genuine KOPTAN....
Just like genuine Pananosic batteries!
I was wondering too.
I once bought a replacement Ninetudo DS case 😀
Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!
@@raggededge82 That's what you get when you shop at the Ogdenville Outlet Mall :)
Hey Adrian, Just so you know, Mitutoyo (mit-too-TOY-o) is basically the cream of the crop in precision instruments. Some of the best out there.
Skookum as frig, to steal a phrase from another youtube guy.
I saw the Mitutoyo box and was hyped. Top tier gear.
Anything built in japan is often if not always top notch ! Great gift for sure !!!
they make excellent calipers
@@jfrancis2768 and cameras...
Mitutoyo is the Japanese equivalent of Starrett here in the US - high end machinist's tools
Awesome job fixing this thing up!! My boyfriend seems to be talking about Toughbooks every other day (he loves laptops and industrial computer equipment) and some of that enthusiasm has rubbed off on me, so it was wonderful seeing one of these things get restored! x3
Adorable.
All laptops should be that tough and it looks excellent. What a great project and a very kind donation too. Cheers
Ive still got an IBM 380D from 1996 and its built properly and really tough. The case is all metal, no crappy cheap plastic and of course it still works.
That Toughbook is a relic, I have about 13 Toughbook of varying ages, some great engineering in some of them.
panasonic toughbooks are neat because a lot of differrent models actually take the same power supply as a IBM ThinkPad so if you run into one and cannot find a power supply look at IBM ThinkPad power supplies
These were great industrial laptops. We used them in cranes for the size...I'm thinking one model was the 25 the other a 17. I remember replacing the hard drives a few times over the years and they were encased in a clear rubbery shock protector. They took a beating and some high temps but always worked.
This gives me memories of my old school Inspiron 8200 (which was actually a Latitude model) and my Latitude D830. A screw driver, the service manual PDF, and a lot of patience (and some spare parts) and you could replace anything. And I did.
A magnet can open a wide world of possibilities
Your hands waving around during the voice over part was hilarious too :)
Totally out of sync LOL
"Look like right here, it says kOptAn on the sticker here. So this is obviously the real fake stuff." ;)
it's also been known for "certain countries" to steal shipments of real products in order to relabel them and sell them on the black market.
Those TV cards are great, it should also give you PAL composit inputs. I've got one but it's a single Digital TV tuner/Composit/SVHS input.
So jealous when I saw that keyboard tray lift out. I'm living with a wonky Enter key because I dread replacing the stick-on chiclet keyboard on my laptop..
People make disassembly guides, so just Goo the model # and add disassembly to it.
Also: happy premature birthday Adrian
Adrian you should try to put another magnet and washer on the opposite side
i have the very first toughbook the cf-41! it doesn't have a handle, it was never designed with one!
superb channel! Keep doing what your doing! Ace!
Awesome video adrian and what a way to show off a good old tough book with 8 bit keys planet x3 great game for a great laptop 8 bit would be proud you did that keep up the awesome vids
also, I don't know where I got it (it's unbranded) but I've got a great demagnetizer/magnetizer. You rub your screwdriver on one part and it temporarily magnetizes it. Rub your screwdriver on the other half and it demagnetizes it.
Yeah I actually have one of those -- used it today to help although my small screwdrivers are non conductive (For safe working inside power supplies and CRTs) so wouldn't help with those.
Fun to watch!
Also, I can't get over how much "secam" sounds like "sea cam"
Séquentiel couleur à mémoire!! French is a pretty language
Well, I prefer Italian.
I had the cf-25 model. Really similar in construction except minor details. Cool laptops :)
As some already said, that tuner card could work under windows 10, but win7 might be better choice overall... You might get lucky with Linux as well, there are drivers for all kinds of tuners - I even managed to run USB one on raspberry pi. Alternatively there are also USB tuners for pal analog as well. Currently I own digital only USB tuner for DVB-T/T2/C. SmartDVB is my software of choice. I also do have winfast analog/dvbt TV card and it works nice with its software (on win7), sadly i can't tune analog signals anymore.
The Speccy joystick interface should support 2 player games --- mine did when I played Spy vs Spy & Barbarian etc... with my nephew.
Hi Adrian, I'm actually early for once! Your channel is so great!!!!
I'm pretty sure the modem, cellular, etc cards are available on eBay. I saw at least modems.
Isn't that magnet a bit close to the floppy drive? cool video
can you put a drop of Loctite on the ends of the hinges to hold the pin in?
Did you ever find the service manual? Let me know please as I know someone...
Another great episode. However, magnet polarity shouldn't matter with a steel washer... should it? My guess is that you thought this because the lid was hitting the magnet.
Others have said that -- but it's clearly not the case. When I took it off the computer it would only attach to the washer one way -- the opposite of how I had attached it.
@@adriansdigitalbasement So wanting to verify my sanity, I did my own experiment with a round rare earth magnet, and any surface was attracted to steel. Do you think the washer was magnetized? That's the only thing I can think of.
Why's the washer magnetic to begin with‽ Weird. Regarding the Kapton tape, test them with a heat gun with them covering a thermistor and get their reading. The cheap knockoffs will most likely melt quite easily.
I thought that was just a steel washer. Why did it have it's own magnetic poles?
what model toughbook is that? I just bought 10 toughbooks at a police auction. 2 model cf28s and 8 model cf29s. planning on using them for raspberry pi enclosures.
LOL! Koptan tape, seems legit!
hey do you know where i can get the driver for the touchscreen? i do have a cf-27 mk4 thanks a lot
why is it called magnesium when it is not magnetic?
I had few laptops from dell and panasonic (win98 era), and i know that there was function to stretch/upscale smaller resolution for fullscreen. It was Fn+F?(F4,F5 or other). Maybe yours has this function as well.
Is putting magnets in a machine that uses multiple modes of magnetic media wise?
yes, just like my magnetic mouse i stick to the side of my pc
Box in a box you say? Reminds me of the Russian nesting dolls aka matryoshka
I feel like Xzibit gonna jump out at any time...
I had read that Windoze98 did not like anything above 96MB. I guess that's not true.
The only limit is how much RAM your computer can hold, but Windows 98 can't access RAM above 4 GB. (You can still use memory above 4 GB as a RAM drive, however.)
Also, if you have more than 512 MB, and try to open an MS-DOS prompt, it'll tell you that you don't have enough memory to run the process. You can fix this by changing the MaxFileCache setting in the System.ini file to reduce the maximum amount of memory that VCache uses to 512 megabytes or less.
I have had issues installing it with too much RAM it would blue screen -- but I think taking the RAM out would let it install then you could reinstall it. Forgot what the amount was but it was 2gb or something higher than most Win 98 machines.
Koptan tape ;)
I have the cf 28 and it has Onboard ess Solo 1 Audio but Can not Get Pure Dos Sound to Work :-( Any Ideas Adrian? Great Vid by the way
Ah I'm not sure -- I think I just got a ESS Solo 1 PCI card from someone and looked it up and found it wasn't possible -- so just threw it in my box of cards to look at later. The PCI era was pretty annoying. I've found the Yamaha PCI chips are most likely to work.
@@adriansdigitalbasement same on yamaha. Seems opl3 was the mutts nuts
Where can I obtain the tiny magnets
I'm actually not sure! I've had these little magnets for several years and don't recall anymore. I would think you look on Amazon for neodymium magnet it'll come up.
Thank you. You have awesome videos. I really enjoy watching your videos on reparing and instruction on how things work. Thank you again Adrian's Digital Basement.
Mitutoyo = expensive, specialized, high quality precision stuff.
3:33 Mitutoyo is known for measurement equipment for the machining industry. ...for Machinists. Like calipers, micrometers, and a lot more. Top three in the industry. That loop is NOT cheap and surely light years above your amazon grade magnifying loops.
Yeah it's so insanely sharp -- I've used it a bunch of times since making this video when inspecting boards for broken traces. I love it!
I've used their loupes after messing with cheap ones. They make a HUGE difference.
Edit: I guess it's technically a magnifier, not a loupe, because you don't hold this in your eye socket like you would a jeweler's loupe.
Adrian, not for nothing you would probably do better with Linux on that TV Card / hardware. There is some real awesome video creation stuff on Linux also. Look at Explaining computers channel for those or look at kdenlive.
I still can't get over how good the intro is. I always get excited.
Yep that good ol classic vhs look
Video fes BACK OFF IT LOOKS FINE
Only a small subset of people can really appreciate a Pimped Panasonic Toughbook. I'm glad I'm one of them. :)
Kudos for leaving the bit with the reversed magnet in there... Shows this is a true, non staged project. We've all been there...
Man, every one of my projects ends with taking the screws back out and fixing something I installed backwards or in the wrong slot... haha
Glad you liked the care package this time, and it seems the Mitutoyo Mag has some fans in the comments.
Those Toughbooks are great. We use them for diagnostic test computers in the car service business. We have a couple that are well over 10 years old, although we have had to have repairs done to the peripheral ports due to the millions of times of plugging in and unplugging cables.
This is the first disassembly of a CF-27 I have seen. Looks far easier than I thought! The electrolytics on the boards of these are probably top-notch quality (considering the temperature extremes these laptops were made for), so I don’t think they’ll break down quite as badly as some of the others do. Anyway, good video!
I would love to be carrying a Panasonic Toughbook (briefcase mode) while wearing a power suit and standing next to a Pearl white Tesla.
The girls would be going crazy.
Mitutoyo is a well known brand in measuring equipment. This is industry standard grade. So good, even we in Germany use it 😜
HAH! Then it has to be good!!!!!! :-P
All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Even bureaucracy of Swedish safety approve this brand. 😉
There is some muppet who keeps trying to sell some of these on my local craigslist for some ridiculous price, he keeps posting them in the tools section, not under electronics, never under computers, "Tools" where people would normally post table saws, hammers, drill presses, etc. Every time I see the ad I flag it, there is enough spam on there already.
Kapton tape can also be used for shielding specific components that might leak RF. i worked for a company whose entire job was modifying computer cases and external peripherals like printers and scanners so that they would not leak any RF that could be useful in a Tempest attack, ie RF eavesdropping. a large amount of the work used a lot of strategically-placed copper fibre gasket tape and Kapton tape. that might give you some ideas as to how to test your Kapton tape?
The Speccy joystick interface will support 2 joysticks.
First port (numbers) is known as Cursor Joystick, Second (31) will be Kemspton.
These options are in nearly all speccy games....
Oh yes, Another episode, doesnt matter what it is really, his videos are always entertaining!
Hi Adrian!
About the joystick interface, yes, you could use both ports at once. For the first one you should choose "Interface II" or "Sinclair Joystick" on the games, for the second one choose "Kempston Joystick".
Just put a second magnet on the other end?
Oh, and Happy Birthday!
If you put two of those magnets together you’ll never get them apart with just your fingernail
Make a series called 'pimp my machine' where viewers can send in their retro computers and you give them a complete makeover and if applicable restore them to working order.
I have a Toughbook CF-31 with 8GB of RAM that was refurbished, and I'm honestly surprised it ever needed repairing, as the thing weighs 9 pounds and is basically bombproof!
You can never rely on on a mem test. If you get errors then you know something is wrong, but even if you don't get any error the memory can still be bad.
Wow that is a very nice Loop for magnifying things.
I had a loop given to me around 1998. I have taken good care of it & still use it every day. I keep it in a pill bottle with cotton. I've had it around 22 years now
I had those tv cards. I had a system I called Cute Grr 75watts with 4 tv tuners so I could run sage tv and simul record 4 different channels. then comcast killed analog cable and switch to proprietary encrypted boxes. man that sucks. Canceled my service. it was useless to me after that.
You could have put the long magnet on the cover right by the db-9 serial port, so the magnet uses the edge of the db-9 serial port as a attraction point to keep the panel closed.
Cringe.. be careful intentionally shaking the mechanical ide-hdd containing device.
It's a Toughbook -- it was designed to be thrown around even while working. I will swap to a CF card, just waiting for the 44 pin to CF adapter to arrive. :-)
@@adriansdigitalbasement I used to have a toshiba into which I put a CF card I ran into al sorts of problems what with not being able to write and read at the same time, solved it by putting the firefox-profile and cache into ramdisk and backing up every time I had to shutdown or reboot. I used to have months of uptime with linux.
@Adrian's Digital Basement
It should be noted, that system can take a 256MB PC100 module. I would highly recommend that upgrade! They're cheap and easy. EDIT: I'm putting my money where my mouth is, a 256MB sodimm module is on the way.
OH wow, thank you! That would certainly make running XP on this thing possible.
@@adriansdigitalbasement
You're welcome! I've ordered it so it'll come here first, then I'll ship it along to you. XP on 288MB though? That'll be interesting!
@@adriansdigitalbasement It's on the way too you. Should be there on Saturday. It's new-old-stock. It's PC133, but it will down-clock to PC100.
Always very wary of attempts to use neodymium magnets in devices that use magnetic media - especially floppy disks...
Wheelmagister yes, that makes me nervous too
All voice coil hard drives have a much larger neodynium magnet inside.
Kapton® is a trademark of DuPont™
Kapton®Standard Tape, 2" 36 yds each ~$150.00
Kapton® Thin Tape, 2" 36 yds each ~$75.00
Kapton® Low-StaticTape, 2" 36 yds each ~$96.00
CLEARLY fake stuff then. That is so expensive.
The writing is tiny -- you're seeing it zoomed up in 1080p so an "a" and "o" look more different than in real life.
Good afternoon, I was hoping you could send me in the right place, I took out my old Panasonic CF-27 and put a CF 8GB card in for the HDD but i cannot find anywhere the win98se drivers for it.. I am guessing win95 will do. Where do you goto for your drivers? any help is good thanks. Keep the vids coming, I watch everyone {yes i know this is old but its about the toughbook}
15:15 In that HDD caddy, there is not only a cushion to absorp shocks, but also a heating element when using this Toughbook in cold conditions.
That started on the CF-28. The CF-27 doesn’t have that.
@@80sCompaqPC , Thanks for clarifying that. Grtz
I love how everybody use Planet X3 to demonstrate DOS games working on a pc. It's like an inside joke or something.
It is pity that no one from the famous yutubers do not want to promote MagiDuck, a very nice DOS modern platformer in Text mode targeting 8088 CGA 256KB ram PC XT
I like to think that most of all tech youtubers are interconnected in a nice network of sorts
I need to check out that game -- I also saw a text mode Mega Man. Very cool. The nice thing about planet X3 is it works on everything in all video modes and supports pretty much all sound card types.
@@adriansdigitalbasement yes Mega Man MOD is by me :)
It's a very fun and convenient benchmark now! "Does it run X3?" can sit nicely alongside "Does it run DOOM?" ^^
...and, admittedly, there's extra personal fun here since it's cool hearing the music I did for it snuck into a bunch of bigger YT channels :p
disassembly looks the same as any 2000-2010 laptop, I hate it, the stress. touchpad and keyboard ribbon cables, screen hinges, power button so annoying.
Magnet, floppy disk and HDD are not friends!
The fake "KOPTAN" is alright. I mean, I wouldn't use it if I were NASA and the success of a space mission depended on it, but for most stuff, the material as well as the adhesive is similar enough. The original DuPont/3M Kapton tape is way to expensive. A roll like the fake one you have shown would actually cost $160 from 3M ("5413 AMBER 2 IN X 36 YD") at DigiKey.
Great video! I'm a Toughbook and Itronix GoBook hoarder! Hehe. Loaded Puppy Linux on one Toughbook. Works pretty good. Touchscreen doesn't work... The GoBooks make great music servers, very strong sound for a laptop.
To be honest you were probably better off than looking at the explosion diagram in the simplified service manual (CPD0204031A2) - that's a headache to look at!
I was thinking "man that's a '70s towel" and then you said "''70s towel" and I thought that was funny. Thanks.
Always know where your 70s towel is!
Stumbled on this video looking for something else and honestly your personality kept me interested (I am definitely into computer, haven’t heard 95 in so long HOW COOL!)
Hopefully Panasonic/Matshushita used their own electrolytic capacitors in this thing, which unlike the Chicom crap brand ones, last decades, and don't swell up and leak everywhere.
I have this Toughbook.. basically it works, just have a dead battery. It's got Win XP installed.. the chicklet keys are hard to use/type on.
kapton tape comes in two colors gold ( or orange as you put it) which is EMIsafe+high temp and bronze (yellow) which is just high temp.
I'm shook w the modularity of the laptop tbh. Only thing i dont like is that it only has 1 sodimm slot :/
I need one of those. I've broke two computers literally dropping them because of how clumsy I am.
...But Timex actually did make some computers. They were based on the ZX81 and the Spectrum, but still.
Mitutoyo make premium calipers so their magnifying lens thingies are probably good too. It's a quality brand.
Wow amazing Adrian, guess what's next to my se30 in the corner? Are these toughbooks valuable?
19:45 hmmm, toughbook and cellular cut, i wonder if it was ever in a classified area. hopefully that drive was scrubbed well. :)
adrian with the hinges, squeeze the center bit with pliers and it will be less floppy and the bar will be more captive, you also need a ratcheting right angle screwdriver(c) any chinese seller on ebay
Use the Capture Card with Linux. This will work perfect.
just force windows 7 or 10 to take the drivers "have disk" "browse for drivers" select inf etc, just make sure if you have a x64 copy of windows, you get a x64 driver, if only 32 bit is available....there is workarounds...but...good luck... or google for alternative drivers for your windows version of preference
also, i have a cheap usb tuner that literally can take ANY signal, it was a cheap first gen atsc tuner, 1 of the early 1s when they were still giving $40 coupons out(i still got 2 coupons left!!!) to get converter boxes and it does all of the data/decoding in software, you can get cheap usb tv tuners or dedicated "sdr" usb software defined radio devices, if you ever are at a loss for drivers, look in the device manager in windows>right click on whatever device, click properties and go to "Hardware Ids" in details, it will list devices like USB\VID_147E&PID_2016&REV_0002(this is the fingerprint reader in my laptop), if you google the vid and pid it will get you to the actual hardware drivers or product name, really useful for those creative webcams that printed the model on a little tag on the cord
Makes me want to dig out my Toughbook and get it up and running.
When you thing the video can't be greater than already is Adrian runs Planet X3 in all its glory and colors! The cherry at the top!!! (sorry my english is so bad)
I've got 3 of these. The maximum RAM that board will accept is a 256MB stick
I worked at a hospital and watched a paramedic drop a toughbook out of the back of the ambulance onto the concrete and then chuck it back inside without a second hesitation. When I made a comment about this, they told me that when they return to their home station that they store it in a bucket of salt water for kicks and giggles. Those things are bulletproof.
WinTV should work on Linux. I had one, but now I don't have PCI anymore...
Is that a CF-27? I have a couple CF-27s with an old Linux distro installed.
I want to see more of the Toughbook, I love that thing! Thanks for the video :)