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I have this exact model !!!! It’s a thing of beauty !!!

Nice find, I never seem to find anything good lol.

Looking forward to your repair video - the power supply should be fine but it's likely those lithium-ion main batteries that caused the laptop to shut off have a fault. Test those batteries in another Toshiba if possible, sometimes the batteries go bad from internal shorts or corrosion, less likely than NiMH batteries but it can happen. It's normal behaviour for the PSU to shut off if the battery has a fault. Personally I wouldn't worry about the battery, it doesn't change the functionality of the laptop except for its portability. For the whining sound, you're exactly right and it's good that you have a new inverter on order - sadly those aren't cheap now I think. The fault is relatively easy to fix though, just the C3 capacitor has failed on the UA0392P01 inverter, I've fixed a bunch of them and its always that one that's failed. If it leaked enough it could damage the PCB or put electrolyte under other components which will cause more faults though. Good luck and enjoy the 400CDT :)

My LTE 5100 is a pretty sweet MS-DOS gaming laptop. Mine is dual boot 6.22 & 3.11 / Windows 95 and handles games of this era really well.

Nice. I pulled out my 205CDS just the other day, the second laptop I used in high school and first couple of years in college. P90 with 40 megs of RAM, but I think it's just a passive matrix display. The laptop itself still powers and boots like a charm, but the screen has been reduced to an unreadable, bright mess, as some screens tend to become with age or stored in too much heat, perhaps? I'm not sure why because I never stored it in an attic or anything, but maybe my upstairs room was just too hot for it. I need to do a data dump on it. I LOVE this era Toshiba notebook.

On the 386 you gotta lower the screen size in Doom

Not available. Not sure if that means it's actually discontinued or just out of stock, but still, bleh. :þ

Man this has taken me back! Loved it!

If it can't play Doom fluently it's rubbish ... *duck'n'run* 🙈

Зачем?

I just received my PicoGUS and it's pretty awesome in my Pocket386! I tested most of the FW/emulated devices without issue. I'll leave it in SB mode most of the time, but can change to GUS, etc in the live system with the pgusinit tool. Absolutely amazing 👏 would only be better if it had a headphone output with a volume knob, but that's easy to fix. I'll buy one or two for my Book8088 systems with MicroRAM and PicoMEM UMB setups

I played all of the following Scene Demos, in 1993, on GUS with 386 CPU. So these should all work on your setup too: Second Reality, Crystal Dream 2, Show (by Magic 12), Good Band and the Ugly.

I've got a PicoGUS, new in box, ready to go. Just one thing delaying deployment... Real GUS is still installed and working! The experience you are having right just now, playing Epic Pinball, One Must Fall 2049, Jazz Jackrabbit, with PERFECT sound, and on a 386... was part of my.... early adulthood. So yep I'm old. But got to hear and play these games at the time. In 1993. And Demo Scene? Yep just as great as you are imagining it. Here we are in 2024, with GUS love making a huge comeback. It's only a matter of time now before somebody's video shows off a new update from PicoGUS. Perhaps it will be MIDI and Sound Blaster digital stereo. When that happens? It might be time to pull the real GUS and install the PicoGUS.

Update! Instead, found an older laptop on ebay, has like a gig of ram, and a 30gb drive, I believe. Also, Windows XP, which runs DOS, and has the parallel port, at let than HALF the PRICE! Much more for Much LESS!!!

The Atari of computers...

I was about to order one of these when I found this video. The one I'm getting has a clear case instead of the transparent black. I still have most of the DOS games and applications that I ran back in the day so this will be fun. I have Windows 3.11 in case this thing is too slow for 95. I think I still have an AOL install disk somewhere too, not that it will do anything since AOL is gone, Lol. I'll have to come up with an adapter to accept an external floppy disk drive just for fun. BTW, the parallel port is useful for plugging in an old school dot matrix printer, in case one has one laying around. Not sure why I'm buying one of these because I still have my 386 powered laptop, along with a 286 and 486 laptop.

An iPhone 3G in 2024 has very limited functionality

Old, slow computer CPU? I'll pass.

I can't imagine using such an involved setup on a "portable" netbook would be practical, but on the other hand, this would have been great on a desktop machine. I guess if I didn't already have a Soundblaster, I'd be interested in this for that reason.

The best way to record with your computer is set the h264 to the fastest because it won’t use that much cpu, set higher bitrate, and use the source as your monitor. Plus using software like OBS would be perfect

You should try using this device with OBS. Since it’s open source and allows a lot of control.

I don't understand why on earth they'd ship a 386 (SX even!) with Windows 95. Even a 486 is extremely slow in Windows 95. Putting MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 would be a much more sensible choice. I get that to make this work, using an SoC like solution like this makes sense. The M6117 has everything you need for a system like this built in. The only addition is the OPL3 synth chip. To me though, this is just a bit lacking. If it had at the very least had digitized sound playback (i.e. sound blaster compatibility) it would've been great for adventure games. But then again, when would I need to play those on a tiny little laptop with a tiny little screen? A handful of times a year when I'm out travelling perhaps, but then a good book will be just as useful. This should simply have been larger. Bigger screen, about 14", more powerful hardware, digitized sound... Then this could have been the "one size fits most" retro gaming solution for those who want real hardware, but don't want the hassle of sourcing actual old parts etc. As it is, it seems like a case of making something simply because they could, without asking if they should. Then again, I'm sure they are cheap to make, and as long as people buy them, they're making money, so what the hell do I know? :P

DOS,, you need SB 16, serial port and parallel. Why this ESS Sound Pentium System ?

Oh man, I had one of these when they came out. I adored that machine. I kept it until the spring mechanism in the keyboard catastrophically failed when I opened it. Started conversations everywhere I went.

The 386 isn't really enough to handle a lot of Win95 stuff. A 486 in this machine would have my money instantly, especially a faster later model one. I know Pentiums are hard to source for this kind of thing and honestly it might not be a great fit. But 486s are cheap and incredibly common. Just have to find a pile of them in a warehouse somewhere and you're golden.

I also still have my first proper hardcore gaming rig which was a Pentium 3 I think that had both a 16 MB Riva TNT 2 as well as a 12 MB voodoo 2 3D accelerator. Still think it's crazy how far we've come in PC gaming parts.

Is it bad that I still have a fully working 486 system in my back room? I wanted to keep it around if I had room just in case my kids were ever curious about early PC gaming back in the dos days

What does the keyboard feel like? Parallel port use: • Snappy • Commodore 1541/1571 Interface • Zip Drive • Networking • EEPROM burning

Parallel port for older vintage printer port . So if you had an old okidata decal printer.

Thanks. I'm a big DOS fan, since the earliest versions. Have set up many DOS systems in the last 20 years for myself to fool around with. Now it's getting tough to get DOS and Windows OS to run on newer machines. So, I am contemplating getting one. I have many olf hard drives with DOS Programs, and many on USB drives as well. Thinking it would also be good for FreeDos on a stick.

Jazz jackrabbit is definitely one of the best Dos games. No digust and gore,just rabbity fun and excitement.😁

needs a source for SB support... great buy though.

That’s very nice because I have an iPhone 3GS but my iPhone don’t support maps app

Great! This is what I was looking for: a test in Sound Blaster mode with Fastracker!😊

Hi! Did you try to connect an Isa Sound Blaster card? I'm curious if it would work!

Tyrian was the best 🙂

What a cool old laptop. My first computer was a packard bell and it came with windows 3.11

Great VLOG as always Josh! I remember having those old bricks at work in the old days! Thanks for the memories you are bringing back with all these older retro systems! Thanks again Josh! WooHoo!

the ps/2 port is a multi port! you need the splitter so you can use keyboard and mouse at the same time!

Was it supporting EGA graphics? Doom looked it.

Found a CDW add from back in the day. The price was $ 2799.00.

Once again you made fixing the issues look so effortless! 💕Always love checking out the retro games and comparing it to the games out now! 😊

great review......allas way too much for only a used 386 cpu

The ultimate DOS gaming laptop (or desktop) would be one using a Pentium 1 with MMX. Ever since Phil and the vogons guys showed us that you can use the setmul utility to disable individual caches. Run at full speed (~200MHz), or downclock to many specific results, for clock speed sensitive games. The IBM ThinkPad 770 is my ultimate... The 380XD is a cheaper alternative, but finding one with a TFT is a quest.

Does it have to be the 400cdt? Ebay has 410cdt, 435 CDS, etc...

I want a close up of that shirt!

This was so fun to watch, even as a “non-techy” person! Love the nostalgia these vlogs bring and it’s always cool to see what you’re able to do with this retro technology! They don’t make them like they used to, that’s for sure ☺️ Thanks for the video Josh!

great Job Josh best yoda ever did it all

This is totally awesome…love it

Contact that number Josh lol