Thank you LGR. You recorded a piece of history with amazing details. Great research despite some inaccuracies. We sold closer to 10,000 units. Over-heated power supply was a problem at the period of technology evolution. But labeling that particular DTR power supply shown in the video that “it was infamously prone to melting” is not accurate. I was personally involved in testing hundreds of them before release. That power supply was the smallest and truly state of the art of its time. And I used one on a daily basis for four years in my consulting business before it finally failed. Dauphin Lap-Pro, a 16 pound Laptop with a 4 lb lead acid battery, was the first laptop to use an external power supply in 1989.

ah, I feel so bad for that poor guy dropping $700 on this product and not getting any help. you could sense the desperation in those faxes.

"It's held together by tape and positive thinking" That's LGR Gold!!!

"It kinda holds together by tape and positive thinking."

Really the most impressive thing about it for 1993 is that micro hard drive.

It's always fun to see LGR uncover some obscure, forgotten computer hardware and then explain in detail exactly why it is and should be obscure and forgotten.

That's the cutest hard drive!

1993 BIOS with Pen.

stylus, on-screen keyboard and hand-writting recognition for win3.1? always surprises me how far ahead of time some things were

That looks like a prop from a low-budget 80s sci-fi, a "computer of the future" in a brutalist dystopia.

This is something I have never heard of, truly LGR know his weird retro hardware.

Start of video: "I want one, I'm so extremely jealous that lgr managed to get one" end of video : "naaah, I'm all set"

It looks like one of those computers which would fit in an 80s and early 90s cyberpunk movie

This is why I subscribe to you Clint. Weird random shit from the past that probably no one knows about. I love it.

"Unscrupulous Nonsense"

Clint, your timing delivery of "there's chocolate bars that hold up better than this" was amazing. As always, the video was great!

I had one of those when I was a kid! I convinced my grandparents to buy it for me from one of those closeout resellers like the guy who bought the one in the video. It was... as bad as it seems. My power supply didn't melt, but my stylus disintegrated, the ethernet never quite worked right, the modem was flakey too. Eventually the (crappy) keyboard gave out. I probably still have the remnants of the thing shoved in a box somewhere.

"Chocolate bars held up better than this." My mind instantly imagined myself opening my bag, looking in and then saying "Shit... my adapter melted again." I need professional help.

Clint, this was way ahead of its time!!

that hard drive was pretty impressive!