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GRiDCASE 1537 (1991)

This rugged laptop was designed to be used by military, government agencies and in space (more cool photos). It is based on Intel’s 386SX (20MHz), supported by 4MB of RAM and a 120MB Conner hard drive. If 120MB is not enough, external storage devices can be connected using a SCSI interface. The most interesting part is its yellow electroluminescent display though. Together with gas-plasma screens, these were used as a high-end alternative to LCD panels thanks to their higher contrast and fast refresh.

Although the VGA chipset can work in 640x480 with 16 colors, the fixed matrix of the screen has a resolution of 640x400. This means that bottom 80 lines of pixels are missing if the system is switched into 640x480. On the other side, 320x200 and text-mode (640x400) applications can fill the whole screen.