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From: tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Toshiba T1000 - Help!
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Date: 8 May 91 06:29:57 GMT
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In article <8853@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, Joe Studholme writes:
>Hi.
>
> I just bought myself a T1000 laptop. "Why?", I hear you asking. "$275" I
>answer. However, this bargain price did not include frills like a user manual,
>so I have a few questions...
>
> Q. What is the battery life on this thing? How long do I need to charge it,
>while it's on/while it's off? I'm taking the precaution of 'burning in' on my
>first charge for 24 hours; hope this doesn't bother the NiCad battery which I
>suspect is inside.

5hrs on a T1000 is what I remember

>
> Q. Where is the battery? It doesn't seem to be the type which you can remove.
>Does one plug a spare battery into one of the many cryptic ports in this thing?
>
Inside.....internal....

> Q. Where can I find the fabled "768K memory expansion", which I am told is
>must-have accessory (it can act as a RAM disk, I guess - does it have a low
>power mode so that the data survives while the power is off?)
>
ELEK-TEK (home of the helpful salesperson :>) still even sells the system unit
as well as the RAM card Yes, I believe it is HARDRAM Toshiba's ramdisk.


> Q. How about the modem? *Is* there some internal modem for this thing? What
>does it weigh? Am I better off just dragging my Zoom 2400 box around?
>
It takes the original toshiba internal modems right...the real cheep ones...the
standard that they did not keep for my T1000SE(for which internal modems are
real expensive)

> Q. Software. The screen is CGA, right? (well, without the color...<grin>) Is
>there a good, small comm program I can use that will let me dial up my friendly
>neighborhood Unix host and do VT100 with it?

I use telix, tho kermit(public domain) will also do VT100 enulation....
BTW: telix occasionally messes up its emulation, doing weird things to the
screen.
					sTEVE