Request For Manuals For Bondwell B200

[granz]

Last night I won an eBay auction for a Bondwell B200 laptop.


Unfortunately it does not come with any manuals, and I have been unable to find any on-line.

As far as the basic operation, I have been using PCs since the mid 1980s, and will have no troubles with that part. I am looking for B200-specific information like the "Reverse Video" switch on the back, what software came with the laptop - things like that.

Does anyone have any links to any of the B200 manuals, or have any paper versions that I could get for cheap?

[Chris Savage]

If I come across them, I will link to you. I see you already posted here.

[granz]

If I come across them, I will link to you. I see you already posted here.

Yeah, I've been on Vintage Computer Federation longer than I've been on most other boards.

When I clicked on your link, I noticed that the screen on the laptop looks like it's badly listing to the port side.  I think that this is just a distortion from the angle of the camera. We'll see when it arrives. 

[granz]

This is also posted on ZappMan's forum (https://zappbots.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=523), and also Dave Jones' EEVBlog Ele(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/vintage-computing/request-for-manuals-for-bondwell-b200/

[zappman]

Found a sales brochure for the Bondwell B200 Superslim Laptop Computer
https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fbondwell%2Fbondwell%2Db200%2Dsuperslim%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit

[JKnightandKARR]

Idk if its Bondwell BW2 but I found this
https://archive.org/details/BondwellBw2TechnicalServiceManual/page/n54/mode/1up

[zappman]

Review of the Bondwell B200 Latop in the Oct 17, 1989 issue of PC Magazine, starts on page 244.
https://books.google.de/books?id=Vb45OQNRHJoC&pg=PT245&dq=bondwell+b200&hl=de&sa=X&ei=PUtqVOLqI-OhyAOw2YHwBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=bondwell%20b200&f=false

[zappman]

Link to a website with info on using the B200 including:

• Iomega ZIP100 as an External Hard Drive
• Network / Internet interfacing
• Software and Drivers (mouse, keyboard, floppy drives)

https://www.retrospace.net/infoseiten/readm.php?id=141

[granz]

Idk if its Bondwell BW2 but I found this
https://archive.org/details/BondwellBw2TechnicalServiceManual/page/n54/mode/1up

Joe, thanks, but that is for the Z-80 based CP/M Bondwell Model 2 - I have been searching for one of those laptops for many years. Maybe some day I'll be able to use that manual.

[granz]

Found a sales brochure for the Bondwell B200 Superslim Laptop Computer
https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fbondwell%2Fbondwell%2Db200%2Dsuperslim%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit

Thanks Zapp, I had seen that, but had not downloaded it yet. That is now corrected.

Review of the Bondwell B200 Latop in the Oct 17, 1989 issue of PC Magazine, starts on page 244.
https://books.google.de/books?id=Vb45OQNRHJoC&pg=PT245&dq=bondwell+b200&hl=de&sa=X&ei=PUtqVOLqI-OhyAOw2YHwBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=bondwell%20b200&f=false

Again, thanks. That German Google site would not let me download the issue (or, more likely, I could not figure out how to do that as I don't read German and told Google Translate not to bother.  ) I found the issue, and now have it on my hard drive.

Link to a website with info on using the B200 including:

• Iomega ZIP100 as an External Hard Drive
• Network / Internet interfacing
• Software and Drivers (mouse, keyboard, floppy drives)

https://www.retrospace.net/infoseiten/readm.php?id=141

I had seen that site, and it is pretty good. I wish that the guy had done a better job of lighting the laptop screen - throughout most of the video much of the screen was totally unreadable. But, still lots of good stuff. One important thing that I had never seen was the warning to not keep the disk in the A: drive on boot up. He claims that it messes up the disk, but I've seen other people leave the DOS boot disk in drive A: all the time.

[JKnightandKARR]

Idk if its Bondwell BW2 but I found this
https://archive.org/details/BondwellBw2TechnicalServiceManual/page/n54/mode/1up

Joe, thanks, but that is for the Z-80 based CP/M Bondwell Model 2 - I have been searching for one of those laptops for many years. Maybe some day I'll be able to use that manual.

Thought that counts

[granz]

Idk if its Bondwell BW2 but I found this
https://archive.org/details/BondwellBw2TechnicalServiceManual/page/n54/mode/1up

Joe, thanks, but that is for the Z-80 based CP/M Bondwell Model 2 - I have been searching for one of those laptops for many years. Maybe some day I'll be able to use that manual.

Thought that counts

Yep, and thanks again for the manual. Like I said, I hope to be able to use that one some day.