YEAR: 1996
INITIAL PRICE: $3,400, $5,640 in 2020
Today’s tablet PCs are very popular and there is no age for consumers, both young ones and older generations use them. The highest trend seems to be positive even in 2018. There are numerous devices like Asus Transformers, Microsoft Surface, Lenovo`s Yoga series etc. but today I want to catch up with their ancestors.
I had done a lot of research on the web and there is a lot of info over there but people tend to mix-up the tablet or any touch device with the pen based computer. The first prototypes are very difficult to be called “mobile” in the modern sense, they costed a lot and the battery life usually was not that good.
Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 Specifications
The technical specifications for the Stylistic 2300™ are given below
Form Factor
Full-screen, tablet-size, pen computer
Microprocessor
233 MHz Pentium® MMXTM
32 KB on-chip (L1) cache
512 KB L2 cache
System Memory 32 MB SDRAM
Upgradeable to 160 MB
BIOS 512 KB flash ROM
Bus Architecture
PCI, CardBus
Operating Systems
Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 with PenX 1.51
Windows® 98 with Pen Services 2.0 and PenX 1.51
Windows 95 with Pen Services 2.0 and PenX 1.51
Hard Disk Drive
6.0GB, Ultra ATA, shock-mounted
Expansion
Two Type II or one Type III PC Card slots, Ver. 3.0
CardBus, Zoomed Video
Displays
Color Transflective (CTF) SVGA LCD
Outdoor and indoor use
Backlit, 8.4″ (213 mm) diagonal
0.21 mm dot pitch
800 x 600 SVGA resolution, up to 4,096 colors
Active Matrix (TFT) SVGA Color LCD
Backlit, 8.4″ (213 mm) diagonal
0.21 mm dot pitch
800 x 600 SVGA resolution, up to 262,144 colors
Digitizer
Electromagnetic tablet
1016 points/inch resolution
133 points/second sampling rate
Audio
Sound Blaster® Pro compatible
Full duplex
Built-in microphone and speaker
Mono microphone jack
Stereo headphone jack
Line-in and line-out jacks on port replicator
Interfaces
Built-in connectors
Keyboard/mouse (PS/2 connector)
Serial A (RS-232C)
Parallel
Monitor (DDC)
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Floppy disk drive
DC-in
Microphone
Headphones (stereo)
RJ-11 jack (U.S. and Canada only)
Infrared port
IrDA 1.1 (FIR 4 Mbps)
High-usage docking contacts
Keyboard
Mouse
DC-in
System interface connector (port replicator)
PS/2 mouse
Serial B (RS-232C), replaces IrDA
USB, 2 ports; acts as self-powered hub
Audio line-in
Audio line-out
(All built-in connectors are also replicated.)
Power
4500 mAh lithium ion battery pack
Autosensing 100-240V, 50/60 Hz AC adapter
Battery Life
Up to 5 hours (application and display dependent)
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I have one of these. Somehow my battery disappeared which kinda sucks. I used to have also In another box everything that came with it (keyboard, and floppy disks, and a bunch of other things).
This is a great little machine. Too bad for the power adapter that gets to 85 Celsius. There were reports of power adapters melting from the poor engineering of the transistor placement…