Jean Bourvic wrote

>A friend has a Bondwell 286 portable computer (made in 1991 according to
>the FCC ID).  The display gave up the ghost.  He has all of his formulas
>and solutions to his laboratory experiments on the hard drive.  I am
>assuming that the drive is either a MFM or RLL type.  The computer has a
>video output connector on the rear, but it is identified as an RGB
>output.  The system will turn on but he cannot "see" anything.  If a
.monitor could be connected to it, he could then copy all of his data to
>floppies and put it on his home computer until he gets a new laptop.
>
>But since it is a RGB output, I don't think it can drive the more common
>standard monitor.

>I thought of taking the drive out, but before I crack the case, I want
>to know if that is a good approach or a last ditch effort.

>Looks like Bondwell is not on the web (was a Hong Kong company)

>Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.


Hi
  It was a few years ago, and I might not be remembering this correctly BUT

We had an old (new at the time) 286 Laptop Toshiba that had the 9pin out
put for video. We made up the cable for driving a VGA monitor. Plugged into
the connector.
To get it to work I believe on the keyboard someplace was FN for function
on the bottom edge of one of the center keys in the keyboard. Anyway by
holding down the Function key in combination with depressing the F10 key we
could toggle from the Orange plasma screen to the VGA screen. We also had
some analyzer type software that could somewhat control limited color.

Know this isn't much info
hope it helps
Later
Gordon

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