@foone If you can get a higher quality close-up of that screen, I would absolutely use it as a Desktop background 😍 But dang, really sorry about the screen.. That's rough! 😢
@foone this is making me want to crack open my old Satellite (a 105CS, so I think very slightly newer than these?) and see if I can get it working again... not sure where the power cord's gone, though.
@foone I managed to dig one up out of the cable bin.
(Friend: I'm sure nerd internet has one somewhere. Me: Nah I had one Friend: maybe the real nerd internet was the cables we saved along the way)
Unfortunately while the lights come on and the disk sounds like it's spinning up, the display seems to be fucked, and I'm not actually an old tech enthusiast, just a hoarder, and I finally got rid of all the CRTs last move.
If info from a slightly newer model would come in handy for your adventures though, lmk, as I do still have the original 360pg manual for mine (and the 'Toshiba companion diskette')
Good lord. It turns out this is the one that works the best!
the first one won't even try to power on (the Power light never lights, though the DC IN light does)
and the third one lights the power light momentarily, but then powers off.
@foone The nativization of 'Farpotshket' as an English loan-word is sure to be one of the most important legacies of the 20th century technological revolution.
I got the third drive to work
I had to hit it a few times and now I'm carefully balancing it on my knee to make sure the IDE adapter stays connected without shorting out the connection
okay, drives 1 and 2 have DOS installs, with one having windows for workgroups installed on it, but drive 3 is... weird. some files, which seem to be win95 related, but it's not a boot disk?
it's also the only drive inside this laptop. This would never work
@foone SQUEEEEEEE it's EDIT! All us support folk loved EDIT when it came out because getting users to change their autoexec/config with EDLIN was... no
@foone the internals look really similar to my damaged T1910CS. Mine shows a brief flash of the VGA BIOS and then permanently goes blank. I suspect a problem with the bottom board, as (iirc) a top board from a donor machine had the same problem
@foone Oh very nice! I had a 486 laptop, maybe even in that range, but I gave it to a fellow LUG member a while ago so he could drive his HAM radio software. I regretted it a while later, since nothing can really replicate the slowness-but-it-has-an-FPU-lolol of a 486.
Fortunately I have a couple 486 machines again, now. 2023 is the year of the 486 laptop! 😌
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