Toshiba Satellite 1850c laptop review
Inspired by the posts Xedin and theproof
Seeing that Habr is very interested in old computer technology, I decided to also get a Toshiba Satellite 1850c laptop, which appeared at my house as a gift to my father from colleagues.
This laptop was introduced in 1992 as an affordable laptop for business. He had good characteristics for the time -
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This miracle weighs 3.1 kg, which causes some perplexity, because in size this machine resembles a rather fat 13 ”laptop)
By the way, in a set to this laptop I had a very unusual controller - the trackball. It seems that in those days it was considered progressive:
Now to the main region - despite the fact that a year ago the laptop was fully functional, and Windows 3.11 loaded on it calmly, today I could only turn it on, look at the BIOS, and see the warnings about a hard drive crash. So I can only try to disassemble it)
After removing a fairly large number of screws (about 15), I was finally able to remove the keyboard. It was attached to the usual train, so removing it did not cause difficulties:
Under it was a floppy drive and keyboard controller. It should be noted that in addition to the metal stub, the motherboard is protected and transparent plastic film:
I did not dare to disassemble further - the display was too dumb to shoot) - it was attached not only with a train, but also with some kind of individual wires. * This is my first self-disassembly laptop, sorry) *
In conclusion, I want to say that this laptop was used for a very long time at the beginning of the 90s - as I recall, the various documentation on it was a full hard disk)
Shl
Almost the same hacker was used by the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick - and he even recently was put up for sale) here he is
Seeing that Habr is very interested in old computer technology, I decided to also get a Toshiba Satellite 1850c laptop, which appeared at my house as a gift to my father from colleagues.
This laptop was introduced in 1992 as an affordable laptop for business. He had good characteristics for the time -
- color (256 colors) screen, resolution 640 * 480, size 9.5 inches
- Intel 386 SX processor (25 MHz), optional - coprocessor
actually a coprocessor - oddly enough, it is located right under the lid from the bottom of the laptop, i.e. it is extremely easy to get access to it - 3.5 'floppy drive
- 120 MB hard drive
- 4 MB of RAM
- A slot for a PCMCIA format memory card, if I'm not mistaken.
Access to it is also through a cap under the screw.
and a 3.5-5 hour battery, according to the manufacturer
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This miracle weighs 3.1 kg, which causes some perplexity, because in size this machine resembles a rather fat 13 ”laptop)
By the way, in a set to this laptop I had a very unusual controller - the trackball. It seems that in those days it was considered progressive:
Now to the main region - despite the fact that a year ago the laptop was fully functional, and Windows 3.11 loaded on it calmly, today I could only turn it on, look at the BIOS, and see the warnings about a hard drive crash. So I can only try to disassemble it)
After removing a fairly large number of screws (about 15), I was finally able to remove the keyboard. It was attached to the usual train, so removing it did not cause difficulties:
Under it was a floppy drive and keyboard controller. It should be noted that in addition to the metal stub, the motherboard is protected and transparent plastic film:
I did not dare to disassemble further - the display was too dumb to shoot) - it was attached not only with a train, but also with some kind of individual wires. * This is my first self-disassembly laptop, sorry) *
In conclusion, I want to say that this laptop was used for a very long time at the beginning of the 90s - as I recall, the various documentation on it was a full hard disk)
Shl
Almost the same hacker was used by the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick - and he even recently was put up for sale) here he is
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/62123/
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