Okay, that tiny floppy disc going into a tiny card in a tiny computer is ADORABLE.

I loved all the goofy stuff you could get for PC Card and PCMCIA. But I especially love having cards that let me plug these laptop cards into my desktop computers by ISA or PCI. Takes jank to a whole new level when you get wifi running off an ISA card.

I've been enamoured with the Libretto since reading about it in computer magazines in the late 90's, so seeing them still actively used today makes my heart sing. Unfortunately the plastics are just as brittle in the 100CT, so heed a pile of caution if you ever need to take the screen bezel off!

We need people to scan the shell of old computers like this, a point cloud so we can use such as a reference for vertices in a 3d model. Then such can be fed to a 3d printer, and then we can have shell replacements for old machines. Look up at what a point cloud is, then this comment makes more sense.

The HDD card bonking the system IS the real HDD experience haha

The 32 bit cardbus slot is basically a PCI slot. You should try connecting a 3DFX Voodoo 2 card on this thing using some kind of PCI eGPU enclosure.

Your PCMCIA cards collection is impressive!

I wrote my PhD on a Libretto 50c! I still own the little gem! These days I use an iPad mini 6 with a bluetooth keyboard. I still love ultra portable computing! Thanks so much for the awesome video! By the way, at one point I also owned the Sony UX 180, and an OQO.

Your stuff needs to reach millions of followers, this is what the people need to crave.

I miss PCMCIA cards, and Johnny Mnemonic is a great film to show on it.

I have two of these laptops, a 50CT and a 100CT, the 50CT belonged to my father who used it as a demo unit when he was a salesman in the 2000's. He said they were impractical to actually use and wayyy too expensive, but executives loved them because they were cutting edge and their compactness was universally impressive. They were expensive toys for showing off but so incredibly cool to me as a kid. The 100CT was a gift from one of those executives after I swapped out all their old hardware in one of their offices almost 2 decades after he had bought a 100CT from my dad, apparently he still remembered my dad and me visiting their offices back then. The keyboard is broken on the 100CT unfortunately and I'm still hunting for a replacement to get it working. The 50CT has a strange issue with the font scale, its almost impossible to read any text because its so squashed. Along with the laptops, I have a "case logic" bag that was bundled with the 100CT along with 3 floppy drive modules, a 56k modem card and a 10mbps ethernet card. I also have a docking station for the 100CT called the "IO Adapter" that has a PS/2 port for a mouse, a printer connector, a VGA out for connecting a second screen I believe and a VGA in which I'm not entirely sure of its purpose.

Gosh, I have so much nostalgia for PC Cards. They made older laptops viable for sooo much longer. That MPEG card and Sound Blaster are things I’ve never seen before though! XP ran awfully on my P3, so I bet this will hardly manage it. Probably best to keep it as it is. That’s one of my favourite AdLib tracks lately, thanks for showing it off 👍

What a delightful video! You allowed me to travel back in time and get access to premium devices. Thank you!

Man I still remember my first laptop it was an old gateway and I remember getting a Wi-Fi PC card for it. Good times man

Another great video! I believe the reason it freaked out when you installed the HDD card is too much power was drawn from the slots. Would explain why the external USB mouse stopped working. Just a theory

The sound is amazing.

i really enjoy your content dude😁 ,also i appreciate for caption you make for your video, it's really help me who bad at listening xD love from Indonesia 🇮🇩

I click Janus' videos and instantly i am teleported back to 1998 when my dad used to fiddle with similalr hardware and i just miss those moments more. Keep up the good work sir.

It's impressive to think, that such a small device back then struggeled to playback 480p Videos but nowadays almost every Phone can Playback 2160p 4K Videos without any problems

The thumbnail and title made me think it was an MJD video, but the video is also really good.

As soon as you brought up DVDs I thought about that Margi card, and there it is! Such cool stuff, hardware acceleration. In this form factor especially!

These machines are absolutely incredible. Definitely a form factor I wish became commonplace.

this is my new favorite youtube channel.

I would definitely like to see how Windows XP would run on one of these! It was a lot of fun seeing what different expansion PCMCIA cards there are, and I had no clue that there were that many. Keep up the great work on this channel.🙂

Had a "Realmagic Hollywood Plus" decoder card back in the mid 90s. Cutting edge stuff. I'm not surprised that card is scorching.

Until the End of the World is one of my favourite films! Good choice!

Used to daily drive an old hp compaq wayy after it’s time and i’ve always wondered what the slot on the side was for. Thanks for showcasing my first look into a pc card and all the cool things they can be used for. Wonderful channel, will be subscribing for more. P.S. Kudos to the tasteful selection of tracker music

That's why I love Windows and PC. Like stuff is almost 3 decades old and it still just works with drivers auto installing and everything..on Linux you'd spend weeks writing a code from the scratch just to get basic functionality.

Just one more reason why I need a Toshiba Libretto. Awesome video! Never thought I'd ever see a DVD play on one of these things!

So many crazy PC card options to choose from! Love the Libretto UMPCs, so well made!

Such a lovely trip that was, Johnny Mnemonic, tracker music, 166MMX.

Johnny Mnemonic! Great film choice, and some properly interesting cards - I used the Audigy loads as a mobile DAW playback device for band rehearsals.

Oh God I just love mini laptops!! This is a cute one 😍

Wow, that's some sweet ass cards you've got there!

it does have a USB port with the bigger port replicator. it works well! Great video. I love these little machines!

The part when you tested soundblaster card was my favorite. Tracker music is so awesome

What an amazing collection. Thank you for sharing!

Really enjoyed seeing the MPEG card - had no idea those were a thing!

Johnny Mnemonic? Respect!!!🤘😁🤙

An Iomega Click drive in working order after all these years. In PC Card format on top of that. And using the only disk you have. Well, this video is amazing through and through, but everyone will have their personal highlight, so there's mine. I came here for my love of Librettos and was certainly rewarded.

i was actualy searching for this machine so thanks for the video

What a fantastic blast back to the past! I loved the Pentium days.. I started in the XT years, I was very young but lucky enough to have a mom who worked in payroll so we had an IBM PC XT clone as our first home computer in the 80s. What a time to be alive!!

I love how your video demo is Johnny Mnemonic!

Happy Holidays! Really enjoy your videos!

I really enjoy these kinds of videos. Great work🎉

Incredible video. Best wishes from Panama 🇵🇦

Another masterpiece from JC!

Interesting video, even more interesting track!

I love your videos ♥♥♥

If I had a Libretto like that I'd most definitely stick Windows XP on it just for fun. I don't think it's gonna run well, but it sure will make for an interesting experience.

I have a Libretto 100CT overclocked to 233mhz with almost all accessories and in almost perfect condition. Absolutely love this piece of 90's tech.

With retro tech appreciation making something of a comeback within the last 10 or so years (especially in miniature compact form), this little thing would be a natural fit for a modern-ish update.

This was my very first laptop ever! I got it second-hand in 2001 but still absolutely loved it! I overclocked the 166MHz Pentium CPU to 233MHz by soldering some points on the motherboard according to a diagram I found online.

3:41 I'm not even that old but my parents bought the DVD of Johnny Mnemonic movie for themselves when I was a child but they did not enjoy it. For me it was the very first cyberpunk themed movie I ever saw. That brings back good memories...

I remember some of the last PC cards were for USB 3 and firewire USB 3 on a mid-2k's laptop was a wild spectacle

i have that Libretto :) i still used it about 10 years ago with Sony Ericsson GPRS/WIFI Pcmcia card to free internet in no-secured networks :)

2:02 That sound is incredibly satisfying

a beautiful machine with great expandibility.. I reckon it would cost fortune back then, but you'd get a lot of use out of it

as always your videos are superb . love it

I have a box of assorted PCMCIA cards, collected over the last 3 decades. Most I no longer use, except flash card adapters that make it easy to pull files off older laptops with no built-in networking. I keep all my cards in mint condition, taking special care of plugs, having seen so many of them damaged by excessive force. Those cards were most convenient to have with my Jornada 720. A PCMCIA on that baby was amazing to have. That is one computer I miss the most. If only they ever made a TFT model, or at least an aftermarket mod. As for MPEG decoder cards - I spent something like $400, buying Creative Encore bundle with a Dxr2 decoder card. And I had a P2-266, which was sufficient at decoding in software. Turned out I could have way better quality, not relying on hardware, but it was so new. Was hard to tell what specs were needed for this revolutionary new thing called "DVD".

that song on the opl3 chip sounds like something daft punk would come up with and I love it!

I used a Libretto 100CT as my personal digital assistant for a time in the 1990s. It was also my go to network jack tester with a 3Com 10/100 X-Jack LAN card. You might recall the X-Jack popped out of the edge and stowed away inside the card when not in use. I think they made a modem too. It also made a great MP3 player for the car, if you could keep track of the 1/8" to 2.5mm adapters. Thank goodness for Radio Shack...

I had a 50CT that I used a lot in the late 90's, and I only really stopped using it when I got a VAIO PCG C1. At the time I was an IT Technician and I would use the 50CT to listen to MP3 and surf the web. I think I had a PC Card ethernet adaptor. I remember many PC Cards getting hot during use, there was a lot going on in a tiny space. I always liked the look of the 100CT but by the time I could afford the upgrade, the VAIO Picturebooks were the new hotness. I just went down to my workshop, and the 50CT is still sitting on my archive shelf, along with the PCG C1 that replaced it and the C1VN that replaced that.

Thank you so much for this video. I love to see those librettos. Back in 2005 in my first job as an IT tech, a costumer showed me a libretto that i think it was the same as the one in the video. Back then was already obsolete but begged the costumer to sell me the laptop. She declined. 😢. Now i have two classic ThinkPads, a 760XL and monster 770X to remember good Win9x times 😊

Miss those days of computing and that Johnny menomic is a great movie

I really like your videos, even if the subject matter is somewhat mundane or not too interesting to me, I still like to watch and enjoy that nice crispy macro video and easy to listen, soothing voice as it calms me down when I'm looking for a little pause from youtube to the hustle and bustle of modern day living. What really peaks my interest is the hacking and novel uses of older cell phones, especially those that have physical qwerty keyboards. I dunno why, but they really shizzle my nizzle! Anyways, much love and thank you for making these videos ^_^

thanks for making this great video!

I love your videos, I watch them in the evening to relax

The Libretto 100CT can be overclocked up to a 110CT. Mine has a 2,5" IDE to dual-CF Card Adapter and 2 8GB CF Cards.

I sold the Libretto back in the day, it was too expensive for most people. But I do remember all the PCMCIA cards needed to make it work properly.

Absolutely incredible. I always wanted one of those. I Actually used one of those Audigy 2 ZS cards with my gateway laptop from 2005 because i wanted 7.1 surround sound. It always got incredibly hot. Never had an issue with it though.

I loved reading about these Libretto machines back in the 90s. I say read about because I was far too poor to own them, they just seemed impossibly small and yet fully featured. PCMCIA/PC Card/whatever else they called it was a very cool standard, I did own a laptop with it in the 90s - some big chunky heavy thing - and being able to add functionality like a modem and network card relatively cheaply was quite neat. Later lots of laptops would have a WiFi card sticking out of the side too.

I don't know why, but tiny laptops and their accessories that are incredibly niche and underpowered bring a smile to my face.

12:15 I can imagine a DJ in 2024 walking into a club with this mf and blowing everyone's mind

Once I saw an external videocard which connects via PCMCIA, now I saw everything

Johnny Mnenomic ❤love that movie

I have a collection of Librettos, lovely things

rare accessories. nice adventure. good stuff.

OPL Yamaha Sound is great, i love OPL 1, 2, 3

I really miss this form factor, at work I'd love a modern equivalent. Thanks for posting JC!

I like how you put the Windows 7 cursor graphics on Win98, this is so funny to me. I have never seen an mpeg2 playback card, this is fascinating!

Nice video. Of course you can playback that soundtracks on modern PCs. Deflemask or Furnace are the softwares you need. Enjoy your music collection. ;)

Always liked these machines. I hav the 100 and a couple of 70 models. The 70's are not working. There was a few dock variations available as well that added lots more sockets. Especially for the 100 and 110. Nice video and camera work.

Great video for an amazingly awesome little machine. If the plastics weren't so brittle, I'd bring it with me everywhere. It's the best little DOS/ early Win9x laptop in my humble opinion. I really should finish that 3D model of the case...

Amazed by how much functionality they managed to squeeze into such a small form factor (PCMCIA).

this would be great for dos games and early windows 95 games. The first Laptop I had that could play DVDs was a Thinkpad 770Z with a 266mhz Pentium 2

You have my ideal libretto setup. I've been wanting a 100ct for quite some time, along with all those cards. That zip click drive is amazing, as is the usb card. Like i've always genuinely wanted this kind of setup. I even had a cool idea for a PCMCIA to external PCI adapter, to pair with desktop PCI cards, maybe even a desktop PCI gpu. Like a voodoo card or something. (not PCIe) To add an eGPU to a libretto.. I think that would have been so cool. Edit: there's the Magma CB1F external pci expansion, but good luck finding one. :(

your videos are so entertaining... geeky paradise... The plastic case tho xD

If you cut XP down, disable search service, system restore tracking, disable themes, switch to classic mode etc - it can be quite usable - you could dual boot with 98SE and use the XP for experiments. Honestly most of XP chugging on old machines is just the inital search crawl and the restore DB building etc and general snappiness is a case of disabling all of the transparency/blend shadow UI stuff - as well as themes (lots of memory used there)

Very intresting video.

Being able to play FM music natively on a Libretto makes it a great little portable music station. I had quite a lot of fun installing SBVGM on my 70CT, and running certain game soundtracks through it, especially the ones for Dune and KGB. I do at some point need to get the right kind of audio cable for it, though; those little 2.5mm jacks don't show up often enough that I have any adapters that'll fit them...

I dual-booted Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on my 110CT when I still had it. Upgraded that little beast to an 80GB spinning disk (many years before flash storage became affordable). I had a low-profile wifi card and a USB 2.0 card (with a dongle, not integrated ports like yours).

The whole vid is nice but the music got me. Is the KZfaq channel of the same name them too. Seems like it cause I subbed to them. Thanks for the show and tell, Happy New Year!

DVDs are 640x480 or 720x480, for the latter they're anamorphically streched to 854x480 or better depending on the playback software. Tho it really reveals the origins of DVDs as being intended for CRT displays with their line based output where such a horizontal stretch is super normal.

For those looking for that track that absolutely slaps, it's titled "Milinda" on the album "Psychic Pizza Connection"

4:50 I had one of the Creative DVD decoder PCI cards in 1999, and you had to loop through the VGA. So, this PC card one is quite clever in being able to send the decoded video back across the bus. Maybe that's what the "zoomed" bit refers to? I had a triple stack of AGP graphics card (I think an ATI one), looping into a Voodoo 2 for 3D duties, looping into a DVD decoder for DVD duties, then off to the monitor. The DVD card SVHS output was then looped back to the Hauppage TV card for taking screenshots of DVDs (ripping a whole disc wasn't really an option as it took literal DAYS to re-encode movies as VCD on a 450MHz P2). Fun times!

I still have my Libretto 110CT that I purchased way back when it first came out at the end of the 90s - I have the docking station too. I used to run dual boot with Redhat Linux. It was a perfect companion as a Unix consultant developer and, in those heady days, companies were less reticent about allowing people to connect their own equipment to the network. Its a great machine and still boots fine.

Cool video, thanks! ❤

PC Card was huge, imagine Google or LG could create the mobile phone variant of this with Project Ara. Just installed an SD Card Reader in my Pixel 8 Ara

I have a libretto 50ct and a pcmcia cd-rom drive, and it works pretty well. The drive is close to the same size as the computer itself.