Historical information

The Acer was one of the first notebook computers used in the Electrical Engineering Department of the School of Engineering at the Ballarat University College. It was purchased in 1995 at a cost of $1800.
The Acer Note350 has a 3½ inch floppy drive and a hard drive with a capacity of 401 megabytes and a ram capacity of 64 kilobytes. The operating system is Windows 95.
The computer was used most often in conjunction with a data acquisition device plugged into the parallel port.
In 1996 the equipment was setup to measure the forces of acceleration on a cricket bat caused by impact with the ball. This debunked a long held misconception that Composition balls used in a cricket bowling machine caused more damage to a bat than normal leather balls.

Physical description

Grey Plastic laptop computer, with black AC Adapter.

Inscriptions & markings

Model 350C
Ext No 0P3
Serial No M0006862
DC rating 20v 1.7a