Panasonic Toughbook CF-72

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-72 is a semi-rugged laptop manufactured by Panasonic and released in November 2000.

Mark/Generation differences
The Mark 3 is thicker than Mark 2 due to the touchscreen.

BIOS
The BIOS used is a PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.0 on Mark 1. If a BIOS password is entered incorrectly three times, the system beeps once and then shuts itself down automatically. The system will not be locked down or anything; meaning that you are free to (attempt to) enter the password again.

To bypass the BIOS password, build the Panasonic Password Skipping Plug and use it.

Issues
If the optical drive is not set to master, it will notably increase boot time.

ATA-6 hard disk drives, despite being backwards-compatible with the older ATA-5 standard, may not work.