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From: andrew@kcl-cs.UUCP (Andrew B Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Who has experience with TOSHIBA T1000 laptop??
Message-ID: <173@lithium.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 05:31:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: lithium.173
Posted: Mon Oct 12 05:31:47 1987
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Organization: Kings College London, Department of Computing
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Keywords: laptop toshiba t1000

In article <3887@ihlpg.ATT.COM> jchvr@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Hartong) writes:

>
>Amongothers in BYTE I have seen announcements of the TOSHIBA T1000

Can you purchase them in the USA ? I am using one now, having had it for
3 weeks now.

>that features a laptop ibm-pc compatible with 256kb ROM, 512KB RAM, 
>720-k 3.5 inch floppy, supertwiste lcd 80/25 or 640/200 screen, build in 
>MSDOS 2.0 etc. etc.

MSDOS 2.11 is in ROM, will boot 3.2 from disc if it in the drive,
otherwise boots from rom. Screen is a little smaller than t1100+.
Same quality. CGA compatable.

>
>All waying less then 7 pounds and costing probably around $1000,=

750 pounds here.

>Is is robust enough to carry everywhere I go?

Very robust, comes with strong padded bag.

>Is it really (?) compatible?

Appears to be, runs KERMIT, PC Outline, Side Kick, Digger, Zorland C,
Lightning, etc.

>Is the screen good and readable?

Yes, but is not backlit.

>what about the optional build in modem? Price, speed?

Have not purchased it.


There is also an expansion RAM board taking the main ram upto 640K and 640K
ram disk (LIM compatable). Ports include serial, parallel, conposite video,
keypad, RGB, floppy.

Only thing that is lacking is a faster clock speed (run at 4.77 MHz, you 
cannot put a V20 in it at the 8088 is surface mounted) but is OK for
word processing and terminal use, etc.