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Panasonic CF-62

The Panasonic CF-62 is a odd ball machine even for its time, sharing some of its DNA with the IBM Thinkpad 701C, and I personally own one with the charger! However, it isn't much to write home about since there is only 6 examples of this exact machine that I know about, though my machine does post, thats all its really doing since the hard drive is dead and the CD drive is currently broken in the system.

However, luckly to me, there is proper documentation about the laptop in hand, as it was all archived along with the recovery and bios setup CDs! However, that brings me to the issue again... this thing doesn't have any sort of normal CD drive, it isn't your average pop out CD drive that most later 90s laptops would've had (usually through external SCSI or via PCMCIA) its built into the laptop, residing under the keyboard, and whenever you press the eject button, it would have to pop the keyboard up then eject the CD caddy.

I insert a MS-DOS boot diskette into the machine and... it didn't boot from it, so I would have to go into the bios and then make it so it boots from floppy right? But again... since the BIOS setup utility is on CD, and the cd drive doesn't work, it's neigh impossible to get this unique system to work, if you know ANYTHING about this system, any sort of expertise with it, I'm asking you to please head to my about me and contact me via Mastodon. I need more information about this system more then ever and I honestly want it to be up and running.

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Panasonic CF-62 Manual