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I had a Toshiba T1200 way back. It was the successor to the T1100 with a slightly faster 80C86 processor, more memory and a 20MB hard disk. It was awesome in it
by zik 5y ago
I had a Toshiba T1200 way back. It was the successor to the T1100 with a slightly faster 80C86 processor, more memory and a 20MB hard disk. It was awesome in its day.
- icambron 5y agoThe T1200 was -- and I never thought much about how weird this is until now -- my family's computer for a few years. We got a laptop for somewhat arcane reasons and I'm not sure it was the right decision, but my dad loved that thing. I learned WordStar and some drawing program, but we didn't have games, so I didn't use it much. It lasted us until 1995 when we got a PC with Windows 95, our first Windows computer.
- jinto36 5y agoI've got a T1200XE which runs at a staggering 12 MHz but has the same form factor and monochrome screen, which was a leased business system from my father's job that they ended up letting us keep. The last couple of times I took it out the hard drive took a whole bunch of power cycles to get it spinning, probably the bearings sticking. That was a while ago, so next time might require some disassembly to get it going again. As others have mentioned, the keyboard is pretty nice on these. The T1200XE also has a modem, so I used it with Prodigy for DOS for a while along with BBSes and such. It's a shame Toshiba wasn't able to keep their lead in portables, they had a bunch of innovative products.