I did some looking on the hard drive, and it appears this machine was last used in December of 1990! There really isn't much at all on the hard drive.
Insanely reliable too.Īnd finally, here is a pic of the laptop all ressembled and working. It works perfectly and sounds amazing! Nothing else sounds like these drives.Īnd here's a pic of the motherboard right after I finished the Dallas mod. This drive had the usual melted gasket, so I cleaned that up and resealed it with silicon like I always do. This is not the updated CP-3021i, but the original with no "i." Not a very common drive these days. Here's a pic of the original Conner CP-3021 20MB hard drive. Looks like I can only add up to 10 photos per post, so I will have to split this up into two posts. This machine needed the usual repairs with the hard drive and Dallas clock chip, which is a process I've been through many times at this point! It's just an amazing time capsule and I want to preserve it. I have elected to leave the laptop as-is and will not be doing any upgrades.
It has the base 20MB hard drive, no RAM expansion and no coprocessor. It still makes that nice "click" when you plug it in like it's supposed to.Īnother cool thing I discovered about this laptop, is that it's still essentially an unmolested base model. These always broke off under normal use, but this one is still present and not cracked. The AC adapter is the original one to the laptop, not a replacement, as it was made in the same week the laptop itself was, yet it STILL has the extremely fragile clip on the connector to the laptop. Usually the bottom side of things takes on the most wear and tear, but here they look as if they were unused. I think the pic of the bottom of the carry case and the unit itself should say a lot about the condition of this laptop.
I saw this nice early production SLT/286 (made in the 46th week of 1988) come up and could tell it was in incredible condition, so I bought it, but it ended up being in even better condition than I initially thought! I check eBay daily for Compaq SLTs, and stuff like this is the reason why. As some of you may know, the Compaq SLTs are some of my favorite vintage systems.
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