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Epson ActionNote 4SLC/33

My Epson ActionNote (added to my collection in 2010)

  • 486 SLC 33Mhz
  • 8MB RAM
  • 120MB HD
  • Internal Modem (of unknown speed, I would venture a guess of 9600 or 14.4)
  • MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 (Win95 on arrival, I figured 3.1 was a better fit)

This laptop is somewhat unique with its 486slc chip, the slc was pin compatible with 386 CPUs, so this is likely an attempt by “Epson” to make a quick buck by selling cheap “486” laptops (on an already designed/built 386 platform), when in reality these don’t perform much better than a 386 (due to slow 16-bit bus and lack of FPU), however it does have the full 486 instruction set, so anything that requires 486 should run, albeit slowly.



6 Comments

  1. Emmanuel says:

    Hello, I’ve just found 1 unit of this model. Do you know something about its value in the vintage market pc ?

    Many thanks !

  2. Trent says:

    Hi, is the CMOS battery in yours dead? If so, how is it still able to retain the hard disk parameters and boot? I just got one of these, but the CMOS battery is dead, and every time I set the parameters in the BIOS, they reset to null as soon as the machine restarts (after saving the CMOS settings), and so it’s impossible to boot.

    Thanks.

    • Ryan says:

      The CMOS battery in mine is still good, I should probably think about opening it up and checking it out though as some can leak when they fail. I can try to open mine up one of these days and see what it is using for a battery.

  3. Stefano says:

    Hello is still available, how much you cost and can ship to italy. Write to [email protected]

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