{"id":11875,"date":"2016-02-09T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:04:00","slug":"fleet-of-4-77mhz-lcd-laptops-with-8088-cpus-still-alive-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/02\/09\/fleet-of-4-77mhz-lcd-laptops-with-8088-cpus-still-alive-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleet of 4.77MHz LCD laptops with 8088 CPUs still alive after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/02\/09\/toshiba_t1000_fleet_still_in_use\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/toshiba_t10001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reader \u201cHolrum\u201d says he has \u201ca couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid 1980&#8217;s still fully functional (including floppy drives).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The T1000 was introduced in 1987, but that&#8217;s long enough that we&#8217;ll forgive Holrum the slight lapse, not least because the machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor.<\/p>\n<p>While the T1000 was ahead on that front, it also offered a rather archaic LCD display as illustrated above (here for readers on mobile devices and in this manual that Toshiba thoughtfully keeps on the web.<\/p>\n<p>The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM, an oddity at the time when booting from removable media was commonplace. Toshiba seems to have figured out that carrying around an OS disks was not going to be a hit with mobile users, so made the extra investment. The computer came with a colossal 512KB of RAM (enough for anyone!) and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive.<\/p>\n<p>Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean, before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only oldie Holrum has running: he says he mailed us on a 2005 Mac Mini G4 Power PC machine and typed on an original IBM PC\/AT keyboard with an AT to USB adapter. \u201cThe keyboard is borrowed from my still working IBM PC\/AT purchased the week before they were released to the public (it has a low three digit serial number).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/02\/09\/toshiba_t1000_fleet_still_in_use\/\">Fleet of 4.77MHz LCD laptops with 8088 CPUs still alive after 30 years \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Reader \u201cHolrum\u201d says he has \u201ca couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid 1980&#8217;s still fully functional (including floppy drives).\u201d The T1000 was introduced in 1987, but that&#8217;s long enough that we&#8217;ll forgive Holrum the slight lapse, not least because the machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor. While the T1000 was ahead on that front, it also offered a rather archaic LCD display as illustrated above (here for readers on mobile devices and in this manual that Toshiba thoughtfully keeps on the web. The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM, an oddity at the time when booting from removable media was commonplace. Toshiba seems to have figured out that carrying around an OS disks was not going to be a hit with mobile users, so made the extra investment. The computer came with a colossal 512KB of RAM (enough for anyone!) and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive. Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean, before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals. That&#8217;s not the only oldie Holrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[600,1692,1817],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-dos","tag-t1000","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}