Bondwell
Bondwell is the name of a manufacturer of home computers.
Originally Bondwell sold a line of Z80, CP/M-80 based Osborne-like luggables such as the models Bondwell-12, Bondwell-14 (1984) and Bondwell-16 (1985). An exceptional feature in these was an inbuilt speech synthesizer. Their prices were exceptionally affordable for the time, although significant trade-offs were made in regard durability, for instance the chassis was rather flimsy plastic, falling far short of the ruggedness usually expected of luggables. The fanless power supply unit, located under the motherboard, often caused trouble. The choice of peripheral I/O devices made the use of interrupts virtually impossible.
The Bondwell-12 was a portable desktop computer with an inbuilt 12 inch monochrome CRT display, equipped with 64 kiB of internal memory, CP/M 2.2 and two single sided, double density, 5.25 inch floppy disk drives (180 kiB). The Bondwell-14 had 128 kiB of memory, CP/M 3.0 and two double sided drives (360 kiB). The Bondwell-16 had CP/M 3.0, one double sided drive and a hard disk with a capacity of a bit less than 10 MB.
The Bondwell-2 (1985) was a laptop computer with 64 kiB of memory, CP/M 2.2 and one single sided, double density 3.5 inch floppy disk (360 kiB). 256 and 512 kiB memory extensions were available.
The more advanced Bondwell-18 model featured MS-DOS and the x86 architecture.
They also produced a range of 286-based laptop computers such as the B310 Plus.
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