Ambra laptop questions.

[Dmitriy Krotevich]

A friend of mine donated me a vintage laptop made by Ambra. It's a 486 25MHz machine with 4 megs of RAM, 80Mb 2.5in HDD and a 8.5in monochrome LCD display. Overall the laptop is in a great condition: keys and a trackball work fine, LCD-screen has no defects.



The problem is that the laptop has no built-in floppy drive. It was supposed to be on a docking station, but unfortunately I don't have one. So at the moment it is impossible to install new software, backup existing data or simply do anything with this laptop. The hard drive is removable:



the first question is what's the name of this type of connector? Do any adaptors exist so this hard drive possibly could be connected to another PC?

Also I found two tiny connectors on the system board:



Does anyone have any idea what are these?

 

[angel_grig]

I think that this is an IDE drive and in order to connect it to another pc you have to remove it from the caddy,in which stays attached.If the computer has a parallel or serial port you can construct a cable (ie a laplink cable) to transfer software to it.

 

[Dmitriy Krotevich]

you have to remove it from the caddy

whoops.. it was so obvious. but I somehow was sure that the front panel is a part of the HDD itself! Yes - it's an IDE HDD and luckily I have another vintage laptop to install this HDD in. Thank you!

 

[angel_grig]

You are welcome Dmitriy!Have fun!