FS: RIOS Clavius a.k.a RICOH NP-40 a.k.a Thinkpad 235

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Apparently, this is an ultraportable that is a precursor of the Thinkpad 235.

This specific one I have sports the following:

• Pentium MMX 166MHz
• 32MB RAM
• 2GB HDD
• Numeric Data Processor BUILT IN!
• CHIPS 65555 Super VGA 2MB VRAM (Discrete Graphics!)
• 3 PCMCIA slots (What the heck?)

At any rate this is one unusual and small laptop. It is even mentioned here under the Thinkpad 235.

I also found this interesting page and see that the Thinkpad 235 featured there looks physically identical aside from the colours of the plastics.

This specific machine I have is the Ricoh NP-40 and its in good working condition however the doors to all the ports are missing except for PCMCIA slot 3. The batteries are also missing and I do not know what sort of batteries to get as replacements. This machine does not have an optical drive however has an external parallel port Floppy drive. I imagine a CDROM drive that uses the PCMCIA bus will work.

Here's a picture I snapped, I can take more/better pix on request:


As you can see its LCD has a gradient to it, seems to be brighter on the bottom half compared to the top however there are zero dead of hot pixels. The LCD is in pretty good shape for a machine of this vintage.[/url]

I had been using this initially as a firewall, running m0n0wall, then later pfsense using two PCMCIA 10/100 NICs. I installed windows 98 SE for web browsing via a wireless card (you can see sticking out the side) and DOS gaming (Day of the Tentacle!).

I would like to sell this to another thinkpadder that might be able to use it! Not sure what something like this would be worth thus I am asking $50 shipped USA or Canada.

PM or email me if you have any questions and such

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What do you think guys... is this machine worth selling?

[RealBlackStuff]

If nobody here likes it, perhaps a collector might snap it up on eBay?