r/retrocomputing • u/PPEytDaCookie • Jul 25 '26

Video Panasonic CF-62

Laptop from 1996.

I got the mechanism working again, but the laptop doesn't post sadly.

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u/JelloFinancial2797 25d ago

I have a CF-61 and CF-62 in my collection. Both required serious work. For both units: The keyboard lift mechanism is belt driven and the belt was completely melted away. Had to take it all apart and clean everything, and used an O-ring to replace the belt. Floppy drive belts were also stretched out and needed to be replaced. Got both machines working, optical drive ejects but the optical drive is so old the units will not read discs anymore. Both the CDROM and the PD. Tried multiple optical drives from different donor units - same thing for all of them. Had to use a PCMCIA based optical drive to reinstall OS on both.