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We seem to be the local dumping ground for old computers. Anyone who gets a
new computer tends to give us their old ones.

So a friend of mine said to me last week, all excited-like: Oh I have a
laptop for you. Imagine my joy! The one thing we don’t have, and haven’t
had.

I waited in anticipation for my laptop. Oh the visions I had: during
hurricane season and having a computer to bang on in those no
electricity times, we could play games, I could work on websites. I
caressed the machine in my mind, drooling more by the minute. Oh the
programs I would install! The Things I would do!

The laptop finally arrived. When I saw it, it was all I could do to keep
from laughing out loud - I don’t want to insult my friends, after all. (the guy was
all excited over this laptop, seriously)

This is the machine:

The first real laptop - the Toshiba T1000 - emerged from the future in 1987.
Equipped with a 4.77 MHz intel processor, 512 kB RAM and the Toshiba MS-DOS 2.11
operating system in read-only memory it was - and is - a virtually
indestructable piece of equipment. This thing doesn’t know how to crash,
in contrast to modern windows machines.

Toshiba T1000 Specs:

Release year 1987
Processor Intel 80C88
Clock frequency 4.77 MHz
Dimensions 12.2″Wx2.047″Hx11.0″W
Power 9VDC, 1.1A(+ = core;- = shell)
RAM 512kb standard; 1.2M expanded
Operating System Toshiba MS-DOS 2.11 in 256K ROM
Weight 6.4 lbs
Video CGA card
Sound PC Speaker
Battery Rechargeable NiCD pack (1300 mAh)
Media 1 - 720 3.5″ floppy disk drive
Mouse None
Keyboard Selectable between PC or AT (101)

http://biphome.spray.se/baxtrom/t1000/

Did I mention I got the manuals too?