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Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 Mk. 1
Panasonic released Toughbook series computers in 1997.
It was a specialized series of computers made to withstand harsh
environmental conditions, such as extremely high/low temperatures,
humidity, water or sand. Most of Toughbooks were good computers, bought
by industry or military.
One characteristic thing in Toughbooks is presence of handles like a
briefcase. These handles could be used with a belt to carry the notebook
as with a bag. Good metal construction of casing allowed to carry
notebook this way without problems.
| Manufacturer | Panasonic |
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| Origin | Japan | |
| Year of unit | 1997 | |
| Year of introduction | 1997 | |
| Type | Laptop, PC | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz | |
| RAM | 32MB (upgradeable to 192MB by EDO SODIMM) | |
| Floppy Disk | In a bay | |
| Hard Disk | ?? (absent in my unit) | |
| Other media | CD-ROM drive in a bay | |
| Graphics and display: | 800x600 | |
| Sound: | Stereo | |
| Keyboard and pointing device: | Small PC keyboard without numeric
part. Touchpad. |
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| OS: | Windows 95 |
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Power supply: |
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1 - Ground |
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| I/O: | - Serial port - Parallel port - VGA video out - PCMCIA x2 - IRDA - USB 1.1 - PS/2 - Dock connector |
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| Possible upgrades: | Memory | |
| Additional peripherals: |
My unit has no hard disk nor hard disk caddy/cable, so I can't do much with it. It can boot OS from floppy, but has significant problems with "live CDs" as it has only 32MB of RAM.
Drivers
Recently (2018) the wiki website dedicated to supporting these notebooks
had turned to something with the same text, but not offering files to
download. This should be remembrance for everyone who want to make web
pages paid for viewing (where's my refund? :) ). However, it is still
possible to retrieve them from archived copies. Go to
this listing to get EXE file names.
The files are not archived there, so we need to find them in another
archived place Copy this address:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.panasonic.ca/PDP/Drivers/cf27_mk1_98inf.exe
And change cf27_mk1_98inf.exe file name to the name you
got from the previous link. e.g.
http://web.archive.org/web/.../PDP/Drivers/diag27.exe