Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Who has experience with TOSHIBA T1000 laptop?? Message-ID: <708@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 11:59:03 EDT Article-I.D.: neoucom.708 Posted: Sat Sep 26 11:59:03 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 01:10:47 EDT References: <3887@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <2444@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 61 Keywords: laptop toshiba t1000 Summary: Toshiba laptop computers are good emultaions I have had quite a bit of experience supporting both the T3100 and the T1100-plus for users here at our University. The keyboard is on the T1100 is actually slightly less problematic than the T3100. This has to do with the way some programs deal with special function keys, bypassing the BIOS. Word Perfect 4.1 reportedly has a minor glitch with one of the T3100 keys for paging the screen, but this is easily worked around by using normal cursor keys. The key-mapping glitch on the T3100 is supposed to have been cured in the lastest version of the BIOS that was released about 6 months ago. The T1100 doesn't have the keyboard bugs. I have been quite pleased with the servicability and druability of both Toshiba laptop units. The T1100 super-twist display is as good as any non-lighted unit available. Both the T1100 and T3100 have a full complement of option connectors: parallel, serial, RGB video, etc. The only limitation is that the parallel printer port does double duty as the port for the external 5-1/4 inch drive; thus, you have to forget about printing while using the outboard 5-1/4 inch disk. The NEC multispeed has a keyboard that will be a little more familiar to inveterate XT users and a display with a dot aspect ratio more similar to a standard CRT. The multispeed, however, is bigger, heavier, and more expensive. The NEC multispeed has recently been given quite a boost in servicablity with the inclusion of a backlit LCD display. The multispeed comes with some hot-key pop-up programs in ROM, and while good, they aren't the equal of such things as Side Kick. The Zenith Z-181 and Z-183 portables are also quite popular here. The Z-183 with its faster clock and 10 meg fixed disk is a very nice machine; it also has a pretty good keyboard. I guess, I should at least give lip-serivce to the IBM PC convertible. The PC convertible is about as capable as a shrunken-down PC. The disadvantage of the PC convertible is that its screen does a pretty awful job of displaying programs that use the CGA mode in color. CGA color 0 comes out as clear on the LCD, while everything else shows up in blue. A lot of programs turn the LCD into a solid blue mass. One good thing can be said of the PC convertible-- the entire 512 K memory (640 K on newer models) is non-volitile CMOS. The contents are retained even if the NiCd battery konks out. The biggest problem with the PC convertible is that virtually every "feature" imaginable, including the seral and parallel ports, has been unbundled into separate modules that snap on the back of the machine. A PC convertible with features equal to the T1100 probably is twice the size and weight of the T1100. I'm glad we only have two PC convertibles. My personal favorite is still the T1100. --Bill Bill Mayhew, Electrical Engineering Division of Basic Medical Sciences Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine Rootstown, OH 44272-9989 USA phone: 216-325-2511 (wtm@neoucom.UUCP ...!cbosgd!neoucom!wtm) << Disclaim this article at your own risk >>