Zenith Supersport 286e

[jdomenech1986]

It would be pretty awesome to see someone fit modern components into that system.

[gocountry1391]

how many megabytes that hard disk has?

[gocountry1391]

does it has a color LCD screen?

[0166882]

heeeyyy i used to have one of them, it used to run very good , well until i dropped it and damaged the harddrive lol

[Wesley683]

wow i have this same laptop,but how can i get a AC adapter for it?i have the battery pack,but not a adapter.what do i do

[Knaeckebrotsaege]

IIRC, this laptop was shown in Magnum (the tv series) a couple times (magnum writing some texts on it in the back yard)..

[ihakkr]

You can just get a serial mouse.

[UKFoodChannel]

Thanksfor this I found one in a dump and use helped me out understand wtf it is

[jacksonutton]

os is small in screne size i covers half of the screne why did they make the screne

that big on the laptop they shouldeve put the screne in the middle (but smaller ) and

ad at leaset one or two (mono) speakers and i think they need a joyball that you see on some ibms(old lapbooks) to navigate or goe on ebay and buy a mouse

[groonga]

my dad i think had a laptop like that for work way back when

[LiviuJETIX]

very ugly laptop

[16mmDJ]

are you kidding? that's one sexy ass laptop. more sexy than macbook air imao

[Aqwert76]

great laptop. compared to the overblown computers nowadays.

[haardkaar]

I've the exact same computer. The CMOS battery is dead on it aswell.

[ZXRulezzz]

So why you just don't open your machine up and replace the battery?

[shiftyden]

cool to see !

[RABBIDGamfan]

The date only goes up to 2007? I think it's well past time someone did a hack for this machine. :)

[k9feces]

in 1989 I was in 6th grade and my teacher had a Zenith Laptop, he was all proud of it

[hotchalupa]

I own an HP Vectra LS/12, which is really a Zenith Supersport 286E manufactured for HP. It has a 21mb HD that is very finicky due to age (sometimes it does not want to spin-up during a cold boot). Growing up, I used a Zenith Supersport (XT class) laptop that my neighbor traded me for an old XT desktop I had. I used it to dial-up to BBS's and such. My current HP does have the 2400bps modem.

[hotchalupa]

After some research, I realized the LS/12 is a Supersport 286 and not 286E. The difference between the two is the 286E (like yours) has a VGA 640x480 LCD/video adapter, whereas the LS/12 and base 286 models have a CGA "double-scanned" 640x400 LCD (it supports 320x200 and 640x200 res CGA modes, but double-scans the vertical pixels to display them on the 400 available on the LCD panel).

[fdfdgbjrtrtrrrrrrrrr]

i want one to

[ashthepokemonmaster]

me too

[metasuperhyper]

I want one.

[ipodjolo]

do u know where i could find a keyboard driver for windows 3.11??

[KMCMATT1]

I'm not sure. I'm looking for some mouse drivers myself, but my system's runing Windows 3.0. I know it's not much help, but my best advice would be to check google and ask around in forums that focus on vintage computers.

[MacBookGuy91]

vintage

[gamemaster14neo]

That is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Just wondering what year was it released? I have a cool Toshiba Tecra 720cdt laptop from 1996 which runs windows 95 that weighs like 10 pounds and runs great. I even added the 128 mb edo dim!!!!

[KMCMATT1]

It's was released in 1990 from what I've read, a year after the previous 286.

[TheBloodyKnife1]

@gamemaster14neo woa there i used to have one of those nice computer though

[lutonscribe]

My first Laptop was one of those! I remember it being really sleek and hi tech at the time. Pretty much the Macbook Air of its era! I am amazed you still have one that works and even runs off battery! When I had one all I ran on it was DOS, Lotus 123, Wordstar and Larry and the Lounge suit Lizards! Windows was not really used that much in those times hence the lack of a touchpad or mouse.

[danielticktum]

lol. that must be quite old. but the older something is the better the story it has to go with it....i think.....