I bought a Toshiba T1100 off eBay for 99 cents! I'm very excited about this and I feel this machine will garner a front row in my vintage display models. I really like this thing.
It's got an 8086 processor with 640k RAM, no HD at all, just (2) 720k floppies. It came with all the original goods. All the manuals and original disks, even a very nice Toshiba carry case. For 99 cents! - Oh, the shipping was up there because the box weighed over 30 lbs. but even with that it topped out at $26.
I'm happy to have this fine piece of computing history for $26. Everything works perfectly, disk drives all read and write just fine. This machine came out in 1985 and cost $4,000. - so scarfing it up for 99 cents was a big kick for me It looks to me like it was seldom used and just mainly stored. I'm really starting to like Toshiba 'small' machines. I have 3 now.
On the back were also connections for external monitor through an RGB connection and a Composite connection. After finding out that I needed to press CTRL/ALT/END keys to switch to external monitor mode, I was then viewing on my big monitor, in Composite mode. Very nice.
I do have a question I can't seem to find an answer for. I tried using an available RGB cord I had for my Commodore 128 and it plugs into the RGB connector on the Toshiba T1100, but I couldn't get any display on my monitor. I hooked up to the composite and that worked but not the RGB. Aren't all RGB connectors the same and with the same pinouts?
It's got an 8086 processor with 640k RAM, no HD at all, just (2) 720k floppies. It came with all the original goods. All the manuals and original disks, even a very nice Toshiba carry case. For 99 cents! - Oh, the shipping was up there because the box weighed over 30 lbs. but even with that it topped out at $26.
I'm happy to have this fine piece of computing history for $26. Everything works perfectly, disk drives all read and write just fine. This machine came out in 1985 and cost $4,000. - so scarfing it up for 99 cents was a big kick for me It looks to me like it was seldom used and just mainly stored. I'm really starting to like Toshiba 'small' machines. I have 3 now.
On the back were also connections for external monitor through an RGB connection and a Composite connection. After finding out that I needed to press CTRL/ALT/END keys to switch to external monitor mode, I was then viewing on my big monitor, in Composite mode. Very nice.
I do have a question I can't seem to find an answer for. I tried using an available RGB cord I had for my Commodore 128 and it plugs into the RGB connector on the Toshiba T1100, but I couldn't get any display on my monitor. I hooked up to the composite and that worked but not the RGB. Aren't all RGB connectors the same and with the same pinouts?