Purchase of the day ๐ฆ
A 2 MB memory expansion card for the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop.
This particular laptop has no HDD, only hard-ram. The hard-ram is acting like a HDD as long as there's power from the mains, battery or resume-battery.
With the purchased card you can add additional 2 MB to the existing 384KB hard-ram. This reduces the usage of floppy disks significantly!
PS: It may look like a PCMCIA card, but it is not
Lucky me! I got a new old stock battery pack for my Toshiba #T1000SE and wow, it's working!
But I'll fix the nasty battery pack from my last post anyway.
As working battery packs for those old Toshiba Laptops are pretty rare, I have to open a used one and change the cells...
but this one doesn't seem to be "original" ๐
Finally, the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop is online using #mTcp and a linux machine as a bridge to the WiFi/internet. Both machines are connected together via a usb-to-serial adapter and a (full handshake ) null modem cable.
Reading the manuals is a journey back in time. Not only because of the content, but also because of the printed word.
As autoexec.bat and config.sys are configured on the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop, I'm focusing on the internet connection. So I can find out what the big deal with this #bbs thing is ๐
My approach is to use a linux machine as a bridge to the network. The Toshiba is connected to it with a null modem cable.
On the software side #mTcp is handling the connectivity using a virtual ethernet card (etherslip). But more on that later...
At this time the serial connection is not set up correctly, so I have some debugging to do ๐
Let's put the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop to the test, with a classic flightsim of the early nineties.
LHX: Attack Chopper
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX_Attack_Chopper
I think I should make a video to convey the feeling (slow display, flat sound). But hey, it's working and bringing back some good memories!
#retrocomputing #toshiba #T1000SE #retrogaming #dosgaming #lhx
It's time to fire the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop up for the first time..
..and it's working perfectly!
Display, keyboard, ROM, etc.. all good ๐
Next I'd like to focus on the main- and resume-battery, but some parts are stuck in transit.
So let's start putting the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop back together - thats an easy task, only two types of screws, cool! ๐
As for the batteries:
I soldered the original cable&plug onto the new Real Time Clock battery and put it in shrink tubing.
The Resume battery is not ready yet, but i think it will start despite it (According to the manual, only the main battery is required for running)๐๐
Recapping of the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop is finished and all the other electronic components are looking good ๐ป๐
The list of replacement-capacitors I used*:
10v 220uf - 2x -> Panasonic EEUFM1A221
10v 1800uf - 2x -> Panasonic EEUFR1A182B
16v 120uf - 1x -> Panasonic EEUFS1C121
16v 1200uf - 1x -> Panasonic EEUFS1C122
25v 10uf - 2x -> Panasonic EEAFC1E100
25v 220uf - 1x -> Panasonic EEUFR1E221
25v 470uf - 2x -> Panasonic EEUEB1E471
35v 56uf - 4x -> EUROPE CHEMI-CON ELXZ350ETD560MFB5D
*Not including monitor caps
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