| Speed | 12 MHz |
| Memory | 512 KB |
| Hard Drive | 20 MB |
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| Release Date: |
1/1/1987 |
| Manufacturer: |
Cordata
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Donated By:
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William Morris |
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This is one of those rare machines to come along that not too many people know about. We *think* it's an XT portable machine with a 9" screen but we're not sure on the speed. The model # (PPC-400-25) suggests that perhaps it's a 25 MHz machine but if it is, it's probably not an XT.
The machine uses a Seagate 20MB hard disk. Although the screen is monochrome it's actually a CGA graphics adapter built in.
If you know more about this machine, please contact us.
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User Comments |
Joe Jiampetti on Saturday, February 09, 2013
Man i was too cool for school when i brought this home in 85! wow a real computer in the home with a printer no internet but you could do your taxes on it write a letter, accounting etc. those floppy disks were for file storage
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dave metz on Friday, November 09, 2012
I have a CORDATA PORTABLE PERSONAL COMPUTER
Model PPC-400-25
by Cordata Tewchnologies, Inc
Made in Korea
Two floppy drives-----but I had loaned it to a friend many years ago and he returned iot WITHOUT THE STARTUP DISC.
Does anyone have a "spare" startup dics?
Contact me at davehobby@machlink.com....Thanks--It was working well but has not been plugged in now for many years (decades??)........Thanks, any information on how I might find startup disc would be appreciated. I( loved the darn thing!
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Cristian on Saturday, June 09, 2012
It is an XT. The machine came delivered with a version of DOS and Basic.
The original model came with 2 360K floppy drives. I upgraded mine with a Seagate 20 Meg hard disk.
A few years later I added an external CD ROM (in those days CD ROM drives were the size of toasters and were top-loading)!
I started my consulting business on this machine in 1985 and I'm pleased to say that I have worked for myself ever since. I actually lugged this machine (appprox. 35 lbs.) around the US and Canada on consulting jobs.
I still own both the Cordata PC and the CD ROM Drive. I am not in the habit of keeping old computers, but this one has sentimental value.
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Hugo Jimenez on Friday, August 19, 2011
I was a Mexican grad student at Yale University arriving there in 1989. I was interested in computers and I had owned previously a Commodore 64 and an XT clone. My research work involved computers (computational chemistry) and I worked in Digital Workstations and VAX computers but I did not have much money to buy a computer for me. In 1990 a grad student in a different research group was offering a luggable Corona Data Systems PPC400 for $50.00 and I took it (Corona Data Systems was later renamed Cordata, so my computer was older than that shown in the photograph, instead of "Cordata" it read "Corona"). Despite the fact that it was already an "old computer" (there were already beautiful MacIntoshes everywhere), I loved that "little" thing right away. The text display was gorgeous, much better than the standard monochrome CGA displays that I had used before; the graphics display even if monochrome, had a much better resolution than CGA). It did not have a hard drive, only two 360 kb floppy drives. It had an 8088 Intel chip running at 4.77 MHz and 512 kb of memory. I did manage to "upgrade" it by exchanging the processor for a NECV20 and adding an 8087 math coprocessor; I also added additional memory (in an expansion card) that took it to a whopping 740 kb! I exchanged both floppy drives (I did bring those with me back to Mexico in a box of computer stuff and threw them away just last year), one for a 1.2 Mb 5" floppy drive (had to exchange the floppy controller as well) and the other for a 60 Mb 5" hard drive. I also put in a 9600 bps modem (very important for me because the main function of the computer was as a text terminal through the Kermit software). I also upgraded the OS to MS-DOS 5.0 and had to adapt a keyboard for it because the old one started having problems (the cable of the original keyboard had a non standard RJ25 connector; I had to exchange the socked in the computer for a DIN connector). I used it for writing with the old PC-Write processor. I even did some BASIC, Pascal (even graphics), and FORTRAN programming on it, until I gave it away after I purchased a Gateway 486 computer. A few years ago the computer was still operating, but nowadays I do not know. Seeing this picture brought to me a lot of nostalgia...
Regards
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Gordon on Thursday, April 14, 2011
I was a Quality Engineer for Cordata (formerly Corona Data Systems) of Newbury Park, CA from 1984-1986. My role was to clean up the MRB (discrepant material) area and improve supplier quality. This included a couple trips to Korea to work with Daewoo who started building the product turnkey for us. The Jan '09 post below states the company was sued by the bear company which is not true (why would they care?). We were sued by Smith Corona Typewriters. More notably we were sued by IBM because the owner had literally copied their Bios. Cordata was later sold to Daewoo for pennies on the dollar but the owner did get a new car and plane out of the deal. I got a "luggable", like the one pictured, but mine had two floppies and an internal 33MB HD (I’ll never fill this up, Ha!) along with a dot matrix printer for my severance. They were the ones I used on the job. Still the computer served me well for several years and the experience I got working with overseas contractors was priceless.
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