I bought a Toshiba T3100/20, I was attracted to it because of the unique orange gas plasma display. I hoped to play some ms-dos games on it.
The listing claimed it could boot to dos, however it turned out that this was only the BIOS. Neither the hard drive nor floppy disk worked, and after going through the service manual to try and diagnose it, it seems to indicate a faulty motherboard.
So what should I do with it? is there a way to track down a replacement motherboard?
I was thinking that potentially I could gut the device and use a raspberry pi to drive the internals. This however would mean using customizing a CRT driver board. After digging through the manual, the plasma input uses seven pins, standard 5v signals. Two vertical/horizontal signals, four for signal intensity and a mysterious last one that seems to be labeled 'video signal'. The plasma is 640 x 400 at 60MHz which seems like a standard out the box resolution. The VGA666 seems to have the flexibility I need.
has anyone done a hack like this before?
The listing claimed it could boot to dos, however it turned out that this was only the BIOS. Neither the hard drive nor floppy disk worked, and after going through the service manual to try and diagnose it, it seems to indicate a faulty motherboard.
So what should I do with it? is there a way to track down a replacement motherboard?
I was thinking that potentially I could gut the device and use a raspberry pi to drive the internals. This however would mean using customizing a CRT driver board. After digging through the manual, the plasma input uses seven pins, standard 5v signals. Two vertical/horizontal signals, four for signal intensity and a mysterious last one that seems to be labeled 'video signal'. The plasma is 640 x 400 at 60MHz which seems like a standard out the box resolution. The VGA666 seems to have the flexibility I need.
has anyone done a hack like this before?