Purchase of the day ๐Ÿ“ฆ
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

#retrocomputing #toshiba #T1000SE

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.

#retrocomputing #toshiba

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" ๐Ÿ˜…

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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.

#retrocomputing #toshiba #T1000SE #dos #msdos

Reading the manuals is a journey back in time. Not only because of the content, but also because of the printed word.

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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 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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 ๐Ÿ”

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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

LHX Attack Chopper - Wikipedia

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 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Next I'd like to focus on the main- and resume-battery, but some parts are stuck in transit.

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So let's start putting the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop back together - thats an easy task, only two types of screws, cool! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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)๐Ÿ”‹๐Ÿ”‹

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Recapping of the Toshiba T1000SE Laptop is finished and all the other electronic components are looking good ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿš€

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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