A kinda working Toshiba T1200 has just got gifted to me by a friend of my grandma's! It looks quite nice, and the battery is miraculously still holding a few minutes of charge.
This is the 1 floppy + HDD model. It is obviously running DOS, and as I've never had such an old machine in my life, I wonder what cool things I can do with it.
The only way to currently communicate with it is floppy, and I'd like to know if something like an Iomega Zip drive can work with this machine. The screen sometimes turns orange and the backlight shuts off every once in a while. Capacitors need to be replaced ASAP, especially the power supply ones. Also, the HDD doesn't always work. This thing is in desperate need of a restoration.
Big shout out to the guy who gave me this! Such a nice person :)
The Machine
| CPU | RAM | Storage | Display | OS | Ports | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel 80C86 16-bit | 1 MB (640 KB base memory + 384 KB LIM EMS memory) | 3.5" 720KB Floppy Drive + 20MB JVC Hard Disk Drive | Backlit LCD (640x200 resolution) | MS-DOS 3.30 | Parallel/Printer port, Serial, External Floppy port, RGB | Approx. 3 kg |
Curiosities
- One of the first laptops with Sleep Mode
- The 20MB HDD was built by JVC
- You could change the CPU speed between 9.54 MHz and 4.77 MHz
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