I have a few of these toshiba laptops, specifically my 430cds, t2400ct and 110cs. Love these things!!

I’ve watched so many videos about old computer stuff but you are one of the most thorough narrators and I appreciate it. I often find that KZfaqrs skip over details and “boring” steps to make the videos more palatable and even speak fast to make it more efficient for the masses but I like that you take the time and explain everything and show every step. These old relics deserve such respect.

Fascinating to me is that laptops of the time have used regular desktop CPUs. Unimaginable today.

I had a Fujitsu Lifebook I got in 1997 that was more or less similar to these Toshibas. It was a fantastic machine I had a lot of fun with.

Found you on Bitbang. Glad I found this.

I bought Sharp laptop in Japan back in around 2003 when doing my Master there, then owned the i3 Toshiba Portégé Z835-P360 from the States in 2012 for 700 bucks, super light one, barely 1.1 kilos!!

My first computer was a Toshiba T1000 laptop that my dad wasn't using anymore. It was pretty sweet with its 768 KB HardRAM card and 1200 baud modem. We got an old Tandy CGA monitor for it, and I used it to play games and get on Prodigy.

Love Toshiba laptops -- I own 6 of them! ;-] A neighbor gave me a Toshiba Stellite 2520CDS from 1998... It sports both a CD burner AND a floppy drive! After playing around with it for a couple days, I had cloned the drive and was going to reinstall the OS. I pressed the power button after moving it to another location, but I noticed that I had accidentally forgotten to plug in the charger... the damn thing still booted into the OS! The original lithium battery, after a quarter century, had actually taken a charge! My mind was blown! Sure, it only lasted all of 10 minutes, but still! It's enough to move the laptop from room to room, which I cannot do with other machines half its age! Those things were really built to last! It already had Win 98 on it, which I replaced with Win98 SE... but I recently found the original Recovery Discs online (as ISO's), so it might revert back to the original Windows 95, eventually. This was a nice video, thanks for the memories! ;-]

I really enjoyed the video. You put a lot of effort into explaining everything from parallel password back door reset to a full Toshiba history in great detail! Sweet! I have a few Toshiba satellite grey models at home. And one Satellite pro (200 or 220 model) that runs still today. It was maxed out and a fast SSD was installed. It runs Win 10 on an intel centrino processor. It's slow but still runs! The 17" beautiful screen is what makes you keep it forever. What a machine. Thanks for your great work!

Tons of great info. Thanks!

😂😂😂 I see Norton antivirus has been cursing the registry with problems for longer than I thought. Few months back I was blessed with the task of figuring out what was wrong with a windows vista era laptop as it wasn’t booting reliably. I ended up finding out the problem was the Norton antivirus software that came preloaded with it back in the day and couldn’t even remove by any normal means. Spent quite some time manually removing directories and registry entries. Even had to disable one service as it was the only thing that couldn’t be removed in the end, only disabled.

I've scored some old Toshiba's for cheap because of passwords. First one I just pushed wires into the port to clear it, then I made a loopback plug. Has worked beautifully.

Mmm, classic YDKJ. Excellent video!

Troubleshooting vxds makes me want to start drinking

Thank you so much 😊

I had a couple of Satellites back in the day. Solid machines overall. Sorry to hear Toshiba no longer makes laptops. Bet they'd make damn good smartphones and tablets. Samsung needs the competition. 😂

Those satellite were capable to run from the non regulated car DC power. A straight through cigarettes lighter to round connector cable was enough. No intermediate power adapter require

Good Video, I own a couple of old Toshiba laptops, One being a Satellite Pro 430CDT which has some screen damage in the bottom right corner but still works to a degree plus I could connect an external monitor via the VGA port, One of the plastic doors on the side is held in place by tape but overall it’s in reasonable condition, The other is a Satellite Pro 480CDT, It is in better condition although it does turn on but the Screen no longer lights up, It’s in need of new CMOS batteries as both have leaked and when attempting to carefully remove them the cables came out of the plugs leaving the plugs in the sockets but it should still boot I would have thought, I’m not sure why but it’s got 2 x CMOS batteries, One being a 3.6v fairly standard battery and the other is a chunky 7.2v battery, Both Laptops have the 2 x CMOS battery arrangement, I am going to work on them and may only get the one fully working, I am passionate about old Tech and hate the idea of Vintage Tech ending up in Landfill, I also own newer Toshiba Laptops and have a Compaq Armada 7400 (27:58) which does work but does need some TLC & I have the Boot Diagnostics Utility archived on a Hard Drive somewhere, I am a big collector of Laptop Power Supplies, Preferably OEM PSU’s if possible but have some cheaper 3rd party PSU’s, I recently bought a cheap Lenovo 3rd party PSU which blew up a couple of months ago so ended up buying a genuine second-hand PSU from eBay which has served me well since, I used to own a Minolta Dynax 3xi 35mm SLR Camera back in the day which I have fond memories of! 🇬🇧

How to make your life easier: replace the drive with a CF/SD card with a fresh copy of W95 and DOS 6 and you are good to go ;)

I bought a Fujitsu laptop with two drive/battery slots in front. It was chosen because of a $2500 limit on purchases at work. I would have loved having one of those you found. One of the weirdnesses of our office is the laptop could not have WiFi. I found a WiFi to Ethernet adapter that worked, but performance was awful! I had to get this when hotels stopped putting Ethernet jacks in their rooms.

I'm seeing these for cheap. Might have to consider this for Windows 95.

Maybe you will find a Libretto some day!

awesome

Great video. One advise, all Toshiba laptops from 1995-2002 have internal batteries (with a green plastic cover, connected with a cable to the MB) that tend to leak. If not removed, they will eventually kill the mainboard with corrosion

I wish we had shops like this in the uk

A truly enjoyable video, thank you. I was fortunate and picked up a 460CDT on Freecycle of all places just over a year ago. It is working perfectly except the BIOS battery had failed; soon replaced that. It came complete with original power supply, hard, floppy and CDROM drives but no battery in the compartment so nothing to reverse engineer. Anybody have a design to build a pack out of 18650s? Why 10 contacts, what are their functions?

Last week I found Toshiba 330cdt In near mint condition for 4 99 at vv .

Can't remember whether or not is was a 460CDT, but I binned a complete set ~15 years ago. Laptop, dock and floppy, disks, the lot :(

I just found two identical Toshiba Tecra 510CDT laptops... and I have no idea what to do with them.

i've always kinda felt like those passwords were more to prevent accidental deletion of data or corruption of os by someone more clueless than nefarious - there were a lot of people using computers for the first time back in those days. and it was also a lot easier to cause mayhem on the computers of the era. and at the same time there were also a lot fewer people using computers to store the sort of data some evil-doer might be tempted to steal. an employee's kid erasing the hard drive while trying to play a game was a much much bigger issue than data breaches.

Great video. I have just picked up a 460CDT 2gHDD etc. Needs a new cmos battery etc but runs great came with a docking station. Has a CD drive but no floppy. Have you had any luck using flash drives in the USB port? I am waiting for a PCMCIA card adapter and compact flash to turn up so I can start putting some software on it- but having the USB working would be great!

I have one of them, but struggling to open it and change some parts.

i have the toshia 4015 cdt toshiba needs a replacement motherboard

I got one. Its getting a CF card as we speak.

Because when I boot it all light blinks but monitor is not working

I have a ThinkPad 760 locked with a supervisor password and apparently clearing it requires *desoldering*, yikes.

Hi, I recently found an old laptop similarly to the one in the video. I am not sure what differences there are. Hopefully minor and only aesthetically. So my problem starts with the laptop not turning on. I have the charger it came with. When I plug it in and press the turn on botton. The On light lights up while the charging light lights up too. I hear a sound comming from the machine, but the screen are still black. How can I fix this? Also can you make a more detailed guide on how to by pass the password? Where you can list names for which devices I need to bypass the password. Unfortunately I am not good with computers or have ever worked with this kind of computers on a deep level. Thank you so much if you can help me. :)

Bro please tell me how to boot it

Bro I have it