Monday 18 November 2013

Word's first laptop - Toshiba T1100, 25 years old !

♦→The T1100 was the first laptop released in the market by Toshiba in 1985 becoming a dominant force in the computing industry.

♦→It was IBM compatible and priced at $1899 at the time. 



♦→Weighed a whopping 4.1 kilograms with a 4.77 MHz processor and 256KB of Ram.Compared to the  MacBook air today with a weight of 1kg, we beg to differ.

♦→Unlike today’s laptop that features a hard drive, everything on the T1100 was handled by floppy disks that were either internal or external.


♦→The reflective LCD was 640 by 200 pixels and could only display 25 lines of 80 characters.
The reflective LCD was 640 by 200 pixels and could only display 25 lines of 80 characters.

♦→As for connectivity, no wireless options were available. USB ports were unheard of and users had to output from either an external display with an RGB, a composite that didn’t allow for dual-displays or an RS2320.

♦→The external disc drive used a 37-pin connector while the printer used a 25-pin connector.


   Post by  :-  ** Nilov Manna ** 

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