This was a red plastic briefcase that held a CDI 450 and a track ball controller, along with the power cord that had a euro plug and some interactive game. The case was not amateur work, this was milled to spec and almost perfect. Could this have been what a salesman would have brought in to show off the system?
Perhaps this was made for salesmen presentations. To use a toploader for that just makes sense. The CD on the photograph is certainly made for tourists, who wants to visit Eindhoven, a city in the Netherlands. Maybe this briefcase was an equipment of a software salesman, who had presented his software at customer's shops or offices. E.g. there was a CDi-program for driving schools, which was available until 2009.
The CDI was similar, and more popular, than the VIS system I have. And more portable apparently. It would have made a great information system on the go. So I would speculate that the system in question was used to pinpoint areas of interest for tourists. The trackball was most likely used as a computer mouse to point and click on areas of interest. The system could then give more information and show images for areas of interest.
[Thanks, btbfilms76, TeddyGermany, kamakazi20012]
