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Intresting video, I found a T2100 in a skip a few years back and it did turn on but I just put it in a draw and forgot about it until today when I tried it today was dead.I took it apart and it started to work again. The battery is dead but works from mains. I do see 6 files when I type dir windows,office ext. The laptop only seems to boot to commandline should it boot straight to windows or do I need to type a command. I'd like to see it working although I have no real use for it.

I played hours upon hours of this as a kid! It should be running much better with a pentium. If you were running it from windows, that probably sapped a lot of performance.

Subbed! Great videos. They've been helpful so far for disassembling one I'm trying to fix. I think I may have a similar PSU issue and am trying to find the schematics to identify all the capacitors on the PSU and motherboard (or at least the PSU), can you point me to any resources online - so far I've only found forum discussions but no documents? For example what did you replace out on the PSU? I could start there. Thanks!

Most people might struggle to isolate & identify bad caps. So a complete recap is their best bet.

have you recapped your 1084s?

the music is so loud I can barely hear you.

You say replacing capacitors you didn't need to but its a well documented problem and isn't is easier to replace them now before they leak causing problems? You did a good job with it and as you say that's it now done for many more years use.

These caps don't see much wear or high temperatures unless there's a 040 or higher accelerator and mechanical hdd in it. Still can't hurt if you don't damage pcb and bridge pins etc. My first thought was to check voltages with an oscilloscope. That would've pointed you towards psu issues. I suspected the opamp. Also consider getting low melt solder, it makes it much easier to get stuff out with large pin counts without damaging the pcb. All in all you did a good job!

Yeah, sadly changing capacitors has become an internet meme. Everybody is doing because everybody else is doing it and not because it needs to be done. It is partly understandable as there was a short period, the late 1990s to early 2000s, when capacitors were being made sub-par and bad cap syndrome was a thing. Your Amigas, and many of the early home computers, are from a period before this time and clearly have decent quality caps. I see too many TH-cam videos of people with very poor soldering skills replacing perfectly good capacitors with ones of dubious quality to end up with a computer of worse reliability than when it started. Capacitors do fail, dont misunderstand me, but this blanket change mentality is bad.

I recapped my “spare” A1200 the other month. All went well except a THT lost a pad. Very annoying but I rescued it. Didn’t fix the underlying poor video though. And then I broke the clip holding the space bar’s bar on. Very annoyinng! I used two layers of aluminium tape and hot air to remove the SMTs near the keyboard connector; much easier IMO. For my “baby” (purchased in 1992 when I was about to start uni) I didn’t chance it and limited my surgery to fixing the non existent sound output. Turned out to be the quad opamp IC. Swapped it over and she sounds just like she did when new. Retrobrighted her too. Just went very very easy on the plucking the keys off this time. It’s great having her look great. I even found one of my newish Dell monitors does PAL and multisync, which is absolutely fantastic for workbench and games via WHDLoad. Hope you are keeping well!!!

Well, it seems like stretched drive belts on these Toshiba drives is a common issue. I have my Satellite T2110 in parts on my workbench (your previous video was very helpful here. Thanks) and I have the drive out. The belt is very loose just like yours. Can you perhaps tell me what size belt you used so I don't necessarily have to order all of them? Also, where did you order them from?...finally, did you consider trimming the belt down so it wasn't so wide? Cheers

Hello. I am wondering if you could help me or if you know someone who can. I have the same computer, except that when booted the screen does not work at all. Thank you so much!

lemmings always sounded like it was playing a tune when the floppy disk was been read

Do you know anyone who can repair a power supply for one of these?

I can't believe your original hard drive works. That NEVER happens in these.

You got some potential right there keep it up you can make a great TH-cam career in the future.

The Amstrad word processor is pretty cool. It's one of the very, very few CP/M machines with bitmapped graphics. There is a bunch of games for them.

I'm pretty sure Apple had monochrome LCDs past this time frame in the duo line. Frankly, I would take a good monochrome screen over a low end color one any day of the week. Early-mid 90s Dual Scan color screens are horrible. Even at the perfect viewing angle, they absolutely suck. Though, to be fair, this is not a good monochrome screen.

You could try one of the pre-dos operating systems like CP/M-86 on it.

It's the Thanatron!

In 1995, Apple introduced the PowerBook 5300 - latest-and-greatest PowerPC processor roughly the equivalent of a Pentium - with greyscale display. 5300cs (DSTN), 5300c (TFT) and 5300ce (800x600 TFT) colour versions were also available, but I suspect the 5300 was the last grayscale PowerBook (along with the 190 sibling; same form factor, with LC040 processor). It might have been on the market for longer than that Toshiba?

Good video! Most people just go straight for the nearest CompactFlash / SD adapter rather than even try to deal with spinning rust hard drives anymore. I do like that yours has a more era-appropriate amount of space on it! Most usually have a few GB's.

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Where did you buy those spare rubber belts?

I have Compaq’s last laptop with a monochrome (it’s a TFT) display, the LTE Elite 4/50E. It’s as rare as this Toshiba.

Are you a furry :(

This looks to be grayscale to me, not monochrome (1-bit).

I played Wolfenstein 3D on a mono screen in the 90s.

I looked at your subscriber count and audibly gasped! You need more! This is awesome!

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by '95, the only place people were still willing to tolerate a mono screen was on a Pocket PC. The question for a notebook was Dual Scan or TFT? I have a couple of Toshibas from the Pentium era and they both have TFT screens. For those who don't know, all modern displays use TFT (Thin Film Transistor) technology, whether they are VA, TN or IPS. Some major nostalgia here; I lived in the UK at the time. These days, a basic laptop might be desirable for a writer. Could use the floppy to transfer files to a modern PC via USB, although most of the external floppy drives are so old, they won't work with Windows 10 or up. Linux might support them. A better choice would be pretty much any slightly newer laptop with a USB port. There are modern Linux distros that are made to work on 20+ year old machines. I think an e-ink display would look and perform better, lol.

The high pitched whine should be coming from the LCD - there's a failing capacitor on the backlight inverter board. Search for UA0392P01 capacitor for more information and pictures. C3 is the one that needs replacing and it may have leaked so electrolyte & corrosion will also need to be cleaned up.

I had one of these! Prior I had Compaq Aero 4/25 and later on a few IBM Thinkpads.

If netbooks had come 10 years earlier, they likely would’ve been monochrome 386’s… in 1997

The Brother GeoBook NB60 from 1998 was the last monochrome laptop I remember seeing. It has an AMD 386 CPU and runs GEOS, but can also run DOS software.

im my opinion, i would never replace a HDD if that is not Broken. Keet the Hardware as Original as Possible.

I think my mom had that thing as a 486 sx 25

Such an interesting computer! I’m actually jealous, never seen such a laptop in such good condition 💫

Thank you so much for this video. I have the 265 and the foam headband is toast. I can't find any replacements and your video showed up! What is this web link? Looks foreign I'm in the USA.

In those days there were many Toshiba laptops extremely cheap from second hand due locked BIOS, password not stored in CMOS on RTC battery like classic AT board. Doing shortcut in some LPT pins BIOS was restored to factory setup - profit 💰

Please don't use your induction cooker as a work surface! 😶

Installing a simple PC speaker sound driver for Windows 3.1 would be better than nothing. 😉

It would be awesome to see how a period correct Linux distribution would have run on this. I didn’t get into Linux until 1997, when Pentiums were current, but I’m pretty certain a few people would have run Linux on machines like this. My first laptop was a Tecra, Pentium 75 IIRC. It was ex business stock and obsolete in 2000, when I got it. Bloody hated it and was so much happier when I switched to a, again ex business, Thinkpad. It’s the build quality on those Toshes which let(s) them down. Thanks for making this video and I hope you are doing well!

I have this drive on my amiga500 but there is no standby clicking sound...i have to reset the amiga for it to read the drive...odd issue.

Can I use a lens that allows zoom adjustment on the Go Pro? Could you help me, I have a Go pro 12, but I need to zoom in on my videos while I record, I need adjustable zoom

What type of drive is it? FB-354 rev E?

Hi Matt, can you tell me the name/model of the floppy drive please? I think I need a drive belt too. Did you ever repkeeace yours?

This game is seriously underrated. I still play it today. We need more VR games like thsi!

Man, that orange gives me so much nostalgia.