LikesOldMacsA very inelegant SC2K experience in Windows 95, but this Toshiba Tecra 510CDT is a total beast. It's from 1996 (early PB1400 would be a good comparison) and has so many ports, lights, buttons, and latches π
Oh, and it just works
Another night with the Toshiba, and a growing city ποΈπ
It's no Macintosh, but I wish the Mac laptops of the era had this build quality. The screen, the hinge, and the keyboard scream $4,999 laptop!
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pc-makers-go-ultraportable/
Another evening with the Toshiba - on my second city. Gotta say, this laptop has been bulletproof - I know it's only SC2K, but no freezes or hardware issues, and I haven't taken it apart at all.
The cord fell out of the back when I was moving it around, and the battery gave it enough time to panic plug it back in! And it keeps time between uses.
Christian Kent ππ :οΌΌοΉ₯@likesoldmacs @foone I am flinching to the scratching sounds of ghost floppy drives
Mama Staci@likesoldmacs
If I can help it I usually back up everything but its usually backed up to the cloud.
If I can help it I usually back up everything but its usually backed up to the cloud.
Matt Bernhard@likesoldmacs am I crazy or is that a really bright and colorful screen for a 30-year-old laptop? Is it a replacement?
@mbernhard original screen! It shocks me every time how bright and crisp it is
voipmeister@likesoldmacs @mbernhard These laptops have very good displays! Unfortunately my latest purchase (a 520CDT, P166MMX) suffered from bad packaging :((
Works great with an external monitor though and still holds a 1.5 hour charge after 26 years!
Works great with an external monitor though and still holds a 1.5 hour charge after 26 years!
vga256@likesoldmacs that filename would be the perfect name for a band
@vga256 so many album cover ideas too π
dan πΎ@likesoldmacs you have to wonder whatβs happened with each of them now that weβre nearly a quarter of a century later.
europlus 
@likesoldmacs I always thought Cindy was a drama queen!
Rand al'Thor π³βπ 
@likesoldmacs The laptop Iβve had for 12 years now and still use (just switched it over to Ubuntu Linux) is a Toshiba.
@rand__althor nice! My (non-work-issued-ThinkPad) daily driver is a 2012 MacBook Pro π
@likesoldmacs Very cool.
CharlieG@likesoldmacs SC2K tip β a square of zoning only needs to be within 3 squares of a form of transport, so you can have 6x6 blocks (or 6x anything). No need to have roads around a 3x3 block. Of course you may just like it that way!
(I spent waaaay too much time lying this in high schoolβ¦)
@Charles oh yeah! This was just for fun, trying to get some 3x3 residential towers to pop eventually. Although I recently learned you can do a no roads, subway only development style!
I spent many an hour as a 7 year-old on an LCII with SC2K and even still have those saved games in the collection π
Here's another part of the city!
@likesoldmacs Oh man, I wish I had my old cities. I spent so long working on it. Magnificent game. They remake so much dross, why canβt they remake the good stuff?
@likesoldmacs What has become of you π
@billgoats I ask myself the very same question!!!
@likesoldmacs Hehe :D
@likesoldmacs haha. does your toshiba emit a piercing BEEP BEEP BEEP when it goes into battery panic mode?
@vga256 it is indeed successful at inducing panic, but this battery is so weak that if you get to the first beep you're already screwed π
@likesoldmacs hahah. i'm glad toshiba stuck with the screeching beep. that's exactly what my mother's 4800CT did 30 years ago