So there's some fun computers on the ebay.
Yes, computers.
This isn't just a keyboard. They're by PLANAR, and this is the INS-4860.

From the front, the only hint that this is anything extra special is that the keyboard has 3 extra LEDs: Power, Speed, HDD.

But on the left side, you can see that it's awfully tall for a keyboard, and it's got a DB9 port and a power switch.

And the right side has a floppy drive.
No, this isn't me installing a floppy drive into a keyboard just for kicks (though that is definitely on my TODO list), this is something weirder.

And the back gives the game away.
We've got an expansion slot, fan, power connector, two video ports (?), serial, parallel.
Yeah, this is a whole computer.

And the ebayer has been kind enough to open it up and take some pictures!

Tiny power supply on the left, an ISA slot in the left-middle, a tiny motherboard in the right-middle, and a laptop floppy drive and hard drive.

And that chip is a Cyrix CX486DX2-V80.
This was launched in 1994 (so after the Pentium), and it's a special low-voltage 80mhz clock-doubled 40-mhz-bus 486.

And that ISA board is a Trident-powered SVGA card.
I'm not sure why it's in there, given that the PC clearly has some onboard VGA. Maybe the onboard was too slow?

And the hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive, a Quantum Daytona Go-Drive, a 514AT, which is a 514 megabyte version.

So the really interesting thing is that the seller doesn't know if this model was ever released.
See, they have several of them, and they're mostly marked "demo unit"
Planar may have been prototyping these and never released them.

So that one was the INS-4860, but they've also got the INS-1070.
Looks pretty similar, eh?

The back looks slightly different.
It's got no VGA port, a new port for an external floppy drive, and a weird ribbon cable popping out the expansion slot.

Internally you can see some similarity but it's clearly a different model. The PSU is much bigger in this one, the floppy and HDD have swapped places, and the motherboard is clearly a different model.

Up close on the motherboard reveals that this one is not a 486, it's using an AMD 386, chip, an Am386SX-25.
It's also using that worst kind of SIMM memory, the kind where it's got a bunch of pins that you have to shove into a socket, instead of having contacts.

There's not a good close-up on that expansion card, but we can see it's a very weird VGA card.
It says "5420 VGA CARD" on it, but the DB-15 VGA header is at the top, where it connects to nothing.
Instead that ribbon cable is some kind of LCD interface, probably LVDS.

another interesting thing about this system is that the picture of the case shows that it's labeled as an "INS-1180 486slc", which it definitely isn't.
So either the case doesn't match what's inside, or the ebayer mixed up the pictures.

And the seller has a second INS-4860 for sale!
The front is the same, but the back shows it's got that ribbon cable again.

And the closeup of it shows that someone wrote "EL CARD INSTALLED"
EL... Electroluminescent? That was used as a backlight on some monochrome monitors.

Internally it's pretty similar to the other INS-4860. Same small PSU, same CPU, same 514mb hard drive, it's just using that same 5420 SVGA CARD for the video.

And there's some interesting hacking going on there with the power connectors.
That connector isn't standard but if the colors are, it looks like type tapping off the 12v and -12v?
Maybe their EL display needs 24v power.

Then there's ONE MORE of these!
This one is is in the same case as the 386, but is missing a key.
Is it a 386 inside? Let's find out.

The back of the case is interesting.
It explicitly calls itself a demo unit, and is missing the onboard VGA.
Instead it's got some kind of hybrid expansion card which has ribbon cable AND vga port?

inside reveals, OH MY GOD, a third motherboard layout!

It's got the same small PSU and HDD/FDD layout of the other 486s, but the motherboard is definitely different.

It's a Cyrix 486SLC2™, a 50 mhz version it looks like.
The video card is a low-profile Cirrus Logic board.

And the motherboard apparently calls itself by a different name: the INS-MX486SLC-B

And the hard drive is different as well.
It's a Western Digital Caviar Lite 200, a 200mb unit.
I like how it has the parameters written on it in sharpie. Someone was clearly tired of having to look those up.

So, the interesting thing is that I did some searching on these model numbers and this company (and the brand "spacestation") and came up with either
1. nothing
2. these auctions.

So it does kinda look like these never came out, or they came out to such a small reception that they aren't well recorded anywhere.

anyway the auctions are ending soon but they've all been bid on by this point (one by me) so I'm not going to link them to avoid funneling more traffic at them and driving the prices up.
If I manage to get one I'll ask the seller if they know anything more about their story

but they're neat little machines from the look of it.
I know of a few companies that tried this "386/486 in a wedge form factor", but they're always rare.

The most successful wedge PCs were probably the Tandy 1000EX/1000HX.
These were actually IBM PCjr clones, not PC clones, but they were compatible with PCs to a large degree.
They both were running 7mhz Intel 8088s with 256KB of memory, so very entry-level machines in the mid 80s