New Research Machines finds

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Dec 18 06:57:29 2003

Couple of new Research Machines finds just turned up:

A 380Z in great condition, with the added bonus that it came with all
the manuals. Quick look inside shows it to be pretty stock, except that
I was told it had some sort of silicon disk option fitted. It does look
to have a memory-type board hooked up to the bus that I wasn't
expecting. Currently drying out prior to strip-down and checking as it
had to overnight in the car...

An RM NB300 laptop. Bet there aren't many of those about (I confess to
not even knowing that RM made a laptop until the guy I got the 380Z from
suddenly remembered that he had it!). Looks to be fairly standard stuff
inside - Conner crap-o-matic 40MB IDE drive, 386 cpu, 4MB RAM etc. but
probably a quite nice spec for the time.


The internal keyboard cable (one of those flat ribbons) is snapped -
anyone know of a UK source for them? Othwise I'll just have to keep an
eye out for replacements in broken laptops...

Oh, I also got various bits of software for both machines - system
disks, Windows 1.0 for the laptop etc.

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 06:57:29 GMT