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AI6YR BenWhat the heck lol. I bought this one at a garage sale for $5, originally. I suppose a hard drive carrier is not a huge investment, if I can't find it. That said, I remember why I didn't use it much, wireless not working, and the Ethernet, also. Just the USB ports. Maybe the dunking fixed that problem too? 🤪 It got a few gallons in, these are not weather proof like other Toughbooks. (only semi-rugged). #toughbook
Well, that's interesting. Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 that drowned in a plumbing disaster here two years ago has come back to life, sitting waiting for me to sell it for parts, lol. I long ago sold the hard drive caddy, I think. 🤔 Do I need another CPU? (I found the hard drive and remembered I was going to sell it for parts because it would not boot, etc.) I guess it dried out!! #toughbook
NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]Panasonic launches TOUGHBOOK 56 rugged laptop
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/panasonic-toughbook-56/
BoAZPanasonic Toughbook 56: Hands on with the latest rugged laptop
https://bookofadamz.com/panasonic-toughbook-56-hands-on/
Laberpferd#FediFlohmarkt Hat jemand von euch eine deutsche Tastatur für ein #ToughBook CF29 abzugeben, vielelicht auch ein ganzes defektes Gerät als Ersatzteilespender?
Scott McCartyRHEL 10 maintenance support runs until 2035, with Extended Life Support after that. Panasonic Toughbook customers work in 5-year device replacement cycles.
Two full hardware lifecycles on the same OS. No forced platform migrations, no churn.
Techzine covered the Toughbook 56 launch in Stockholm — good write-up on why RHEL certification matters for defense and critical infrastructure.
https://www.techzine.eu/news/devices/139569/red-hat-powers-panasonic-toughbook-56-with-a-rugged-os/
#RHEL #EdgeComputing #OpenSource #Toughbook #Linux
Two full hardware lifecycles on the same OS. No forced platform migrations, no churn.
Techzine covered the Toughbook 56 launch in Stockholm — good write-up on why RHEL certification matters for defense and critical infrastructure.
https://www.techzine.eu/news/devices/139569/red-hat-powers-panasonic-toughbook-56-with-a-rugged-os/
#RHEL #EdgeComputing #OpenSource #Toughbook #Linux
Panasonic TOUGHBOOK is certified on RHEL. I worked with the Panasonic team on the RHEL 10 roadmap, so it's cool to see this Q&A with their TOUGHBOOK PM about the partnership.
Air-gapped, enterprise-secured, containerized edge computing on hardware tested against drops, dust, and water for 30 years. Defense, emergency response, field work.
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/panasonic-connect-q-and-a
#EdgeComputing #RHEL #OpenSource #Toughbook #Linux
Air-gapped, enterprise-secured, containerized edge computing on hardware tested against drops, dust, and water for 30 years. Defense, emergency response, field work.
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/panasonic-connect-q-and-a
#EdgeComputing #RHEL #OpenSource #Toughbook #Linux
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)The new keyboard turned up. It spent a holiday at Kenmore, then Australia Post tried to deliver it on the very day that neither of us is home… so my father picked it up from the post office this morning.
It took a bit of coaxing to get that top cover up and to get the adhesive to let go, but once I did that, it was plain sailing. This keyboard has a different feel to the old one, but I'm getting used to it already.
The old keyboard had keycaps that were popping up intermittently, especially right-shift and Enter. Very annoying. The left-hand keys are also well and truly polished after over a decade of regular use.
There was a tonne of crud in there too… including some grey fur… I wonder where that came from?
Anyway, below are the before and after photos. Well worth doing… and yes, a laptop that had a non-backlit keyboard can take a backlit one just fine … there's three sockets for the keyboard. When you plug the new one in: do the socket closest to the touch pad first, then connect the backlight socket (right-hand side), then the final socket.
Back in November 2013, I bought myself a new laptop to celebrate that I was in full-time employment for the first time in my life.
The laptop was a Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 Mk2. I still have it, typing on it now in fact. Its had a few upgrades, but the keyboard is still the original.
A couple of the scissor switch mechanisms are starting to fail now, with a few keys becoming unresponsive or the key caps popping up. Most annoyingly, right-shift and enter. So it's new keyboard time.
I've ordered one of these, it's a backlit chiclet keyboard. Mine's not backlit, and not a chiclet, but it says its for CF-53 so hopefully will fit. $50 isn't a lot to spend anyway, so worth a gamble.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/276625672231
Replacement doesn't look hard from the iFixit article I found, so we'll see.
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