In 97, I bought my first true laptop (previous ones were broken in ways). I was a junior in high school. It was a Toshiba T1850 with a 386sx25, 4MB RAM, 120MB hard disk and a 9.5" VGA greyscale LCD. I got two batteries with it, too. I eventually bought the 8MB RAM card that maxed it to 12MB, more than enough for Windows 3.11.
I used the hell out of that thing and even soldered in a 486slc33 (running at 25MHZ due to clock chip) and wrote the code to turn on the L1 cache, giving the unit three times the performance in 99, but eventually I decided it was time to upgrade and bought a PIII in 2001. The old laptop went by the wayside and was taken apart for some reason. I went to put it together in 2003 and found the connector for the LCD panel was torn. Not gonna happen. Bummer.
I realized I missed using that machine because it was the only such system I've owned where the screen had enough residual light coming off it to light the keyboard for me. I need this feature at night. Newer displays with wide viewing angles don't do that. USB lights don't work because they cast sharp shadows.
A week ago, I was able to score one of these machines from a local shop that did consignment sales on ebay. I tried putting my 486 motherboard in but it was dead. I didn't really need it anyway because Doom was never all that fun without sound, even though it ran perfectly.
So now I have my old lappy back and I'm using it just as heavily as the original. I wish I could find my old RAM card, but for now I have 6MB in this one because it came with a 2MB card inside. And a 2400bps modem. woohoo.
I used the hell out of that thing and even soldered in a 486slc33 (running at 25MHZ due to clock chip) and wrote the code to turn on the L1 cache, giving the unit three times the performance in 99, but eventually I decided it was time to upgrade and bought a PIII in 2001. The old laptop went by the wayside and was taken apart for some reason. I went to put it together in 2003 and found the connector for the LCD panel was torn. Not gonna happen. Bummer.
I realized I missed using that machine because it was the only such system I've owned where the screen had enough residual light coming off it to light the keyboard for me. I need this feature at night. Newer displays with wide viewing angles don't do that. USB lights don't work because they cast sharp shadows.
A week ago, I was able to score one of these machines from a local shop that did consignment sales on ebay. I tried putting my 486 motherboard in but it was dead. I didn't really need it anyway because Doom was never all that fun without sound, even though it ran perfectly.
So now I have my old lappy back and I'm using it just as heavily as the original. I wish I could find my old RAM card, but for now I have 6MB in this one because it came with a 2MB card inside. And a 2400bps modem. woohoo.
-- I'm a PeeCee and I can
kick your ass
. --
Slow PeeCee - i7 940 OC 4.1GHz, 20GB DDR3 OC 1.8GHz, 2x1TB WD RAID0, ATI 5870 1GB, 3008WFP
Dev PeeCee - IBM Intellistation A Pro - Dual Opteron 290 2.8GHz, 8GB ECC DDR, 500GB SATA, 8400GS, 2x1800FP
Slow PeeCee Cluster - 30x Opteron 275, 60.5GB RAM, 2.2TB, 2x1.5TB
Octane 2xR12K-300, 1.5GB, 36GB 10K, 73GB 10K, V8
Indigo2 195MHz, 1GB, 36GB, SI
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who understand Ternary. Those who don't. Those who could give a shit less.
Slow PeeCee - i7 940 OC 4.1GHz, 20GB DDR3 OC 1.8GHz, 2x1TB WD RAID0, ATI 5870 1GB, 3008WFP
Dev PeeCee - IBM Intellistation A Pro - Dual Opteron 290 2.8GHz, 8GB ECC DDR, 500GB SATA, 8400GS, 2x1800FP
Slow PeeCee Cluster - 30x Opteron 275, 60.5GB RAM, 2.2TB, 2x1.5TB
Octane 2xR12K-300, 1.5GB, 36GB 10K, 73GB 10K, V8
Indigo2 195MHz, 1GB, 36GB, SI
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who understand Ternary. Those who don't. Those who could give a shit less.
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DOS 3.2 here though.