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From: anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000
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Date: 8 Jun 91 07:56:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jun03.234250.17177@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> creasyg@bionette.CGRB.ORST.EDU (Glen L. Creasy) writes:
>
>I remember looking around in magazines soon after I got it, and I saw
>a write up on a company that would install backlighting ($295) and a 
>battery upgrade ($80 -adds 4 oz.  Don't know how much the backlighting
>adds).  'Course, for that kind of money.....:-)
>
>The company is (was):
>     Axonix Corp.
>     2257 S. 1100 East St.  #2C
>     Salt Lake City, UT  84106
>     (801)466-9797
>
>Have no idea if it's still around.

Here's a recent number,800-866-9797.  They still make portable,
handheld hard drives at least.  A review of the backlight upgrade years
ago said that you had to send in your Toshiba, and they would use acid
to eat off the reflective backing and replace it with an
electroluminescent strip.  As a result the upgrade may not be perfect,
and as with most backlights of this type and age, the display almost
requires the backlight to be readable.

>I've often thought of upgrades that I would like (DOS 3.3, 1.44 Mb drive,
>etc.), but then I think, nahhhhh.  Why bother?  I really *would* like a
>memory expansion card bigger than 768K, though.

Toshiba does seem to sell MS-DOS 3.3 for the T1000, it will eat up
space on the hardRAMdrive (no ROM upgrade), so I've done without it.
It seems the way to upgrade to a 1.44MB drive and more RAM is to get a
T1000SE.  Although the batteries only last a couple hours, at least you
can stick in a fresh one when it runs down.  For the moment, I'll wait
until I can get a 386 for the same size and *price* :-), as my T1000.
When I was shopping for memory for other laptops, I asked about T1000
memory.  It seems that the T1000 is just too old, and too limited a
market to justify making a larger RAM card for it.  Considering the odd
size, I would expect that at least a 1MB RAM card could be built.  I'd
certainly be interested in buying one.
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