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As some of you may know I collect and restore vintage laptops so thought I would share some of them here. Starting with the Zenith Supersport ZWL-184-97, this one is a British Telecom branded version from 1987 or so Original Specs 1 Floppy Drive (720kB) 1 Internal 3.5" Hard Drive (20MB) Internal 2400Baud Modem Extended battery pack (originally lasted up to 7 hours, still working) 80C88-2 CPU at 4.77/8Mhz 640kb RAM 640x200 CGA Monochrome display (Blue/White) Full Size Keyboard The HDD is dead and is a rare proprietory MFM/RLL one so i have removed it (reduced the weight quite a bit lol) I replaced the floppy drive with a Gotek Floppy Emulator, the machine works with the 2.5 Mb DD floppy images supported by the gotek so a decent substitute. I have also got a 100mb Parallel zip drive working as well ZDS SupersPort - Service Manual.pdf

My method is a little different - I use Acronis True Image 2016. Below is all the backups I have taken... The folders are not full apart from one, the backup program just insists on recreating all the old ones that sit there empty. PC originally brought in Aprtil 2016 for Vive and lots of full backups since then on the folder dates shown. If it's been too long since I tidied up - I often check the last backup and look at everything that is installed since then and simply roll back doing a full restore of C:\ if there is nothing new I care about - anything new that I do - I can reinstall. The metric I use is simply - is the reinstall going to take more then twenty minutes to resotre what I care about ? If yes, I remove everything that I don't care about and backup the PC to a new image. If no, I roll back to the last good backup. Keeps it working quick and fast - and pain free.

This little DOS Handheld PC is from 1992 Specs CPU:NEC V30 (80C86) @ 4.77MHz / 7.15MHz RAM:640K system memory Display:7.0 x 2.75-inch LCD 80x25 text, 640x200 graphics Ports:mini-serial, mini-parallel Expansion:two PCMCIA card slots OS:MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM I have a working 2mb SRAM Card for it, which goes in a PCMCIA slot and a network card, which i haven't set up yet

I’ve hit jackpot on the line once before and seenit other times, the way the middle and third reel step up for the jp by numbers makes it a kind of advanced stop n step. if you hit nothing it’s a quid win but that’s harder to do than you think!!! The jackpot lines up quite often and you can hit lines too but there was never any need, made my think now though, might have a good go at it with the emulator and share screens, tbh it’s been so long I’m hitting the 4 in the middle quite often on last few tries so I’m a bit out of touch!! Also forgotten the mixed bar setup for it to be jp set on shoot em up too, I’ll try and remember that to share as well

JPM's Arcadia, running the P9 ROMs (non-emptiable) which are the earliest ones we have. Thanks to @vectra666 and @Tommy c for the layouts featured

no probs at all man this is looking fab so far ..i will keep an eye on here and still effort put in is great love stuff like this !!! it can only get better in time am sure good luck on this !

Thanks for letting me know the whole process time line, that way I can avoid asking and do my best to be patient!! I look forward to it!!

@johnparker007 found an genesis cab 3d object maybe you can use it. greetings spidy barcrestgenmodel v1.zip

Like you say, it's far too easy to lose £350+ on these things in no time at all. They shouldn't exist anywhere unregulated, especially where people will be drunk.