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The 386SX Plus Notebook was a premium notebook offered by Leading Edge in the early 1990s. This notebook was an uprated laptop against its contemporary sister offering at the time, the 386SX Notebook. The "Plus" notebook came with a higher frequency 386SX CPU, greater RAM, a larger capacity battery, and larger RAM expansion capabilities. When purchased, the computer was bundled with all that the user would have found necessary to get a productive workspace operational.
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Not much is known about the shown Leading Edge laptop bag. It's unknown if Leading Edge laptops came with bags, but like today, it's very unlikely and may have been offered as an additional premium up charged option. It may not even have been available as an optional bag from the company and could have only been offered as internal company swag. LeadingEdgeComputers.com maintains several Leading Edge laptops and upon testing each, it appears to best fit the DLT/386SX laptop, which was a rather hefty laptop computer. Regardless of how it was offered, let's' explore more about the laptop bag.

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The Model D2 Plus came with two 32K BIOS chips with the system's BIOS images burned in. Featured here are the version 3.0 BIOS images. This could prove useful to anyone restoring a Leading Edge Model D2 Plus with a corrupt BIOS image or even as an upgrade to an older version.

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In the early 1990s, the 386SX Plus Notebook Manual stood as a vital instructional and reference tool for users navigating one of the more advanced portable computing devices of its era. The manual reflected a transitional moment in personal computing—when notebooks were evolving from bulky luggables to more compact, battery−operated systems. With its 25 MHz Intel 80386SX processor and support for an optional math coprocessor, the notebook represented a significant step toward bringing desktop−class performance into a portable format, and the manual thoroughly documented how to manage this complexity.



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