This is probably one of the coolest videos i have watched on youtube since 2009 (thats when i started watching youtube) just to see how fast a computer from the 90's was, awesome 🎮👾👾💻📼📻📺🔌🎚📠
Picked one 70 CT with dock, adapter and floppy drive for 50 bucks... pure mint condition. They normally retailed around 1600 back in 1998. Funny the drivers are still available on the toshiba website.
I took it apart so everyone could see what one would look like inside. You wouldn't want to see a rare car or buy a new one without looking under the hood right?
Hey, loved your video. I own a Libretto 70CT myself. Ended up aquiring it from Ebay and paid $160 for mine, but its fully functional. Wanted one ever since I saw it in the 90's.
XgamerGR I picked one up. They're cool if you're a real computer nerd (and chances are you are one if you saw this video :P). I put Windows 98 on mine and it runs all right. It slows down just a tiny bit when I'm playing mp3 stuff as it isn't exactly optimized, but she's handled some late 90's games just fine.
Most definitely :D. Right now I'm hacking mine to act sorta like a laptop-x86-Raspberry-Pi sort of rig, by soldering stuff to the parallel port. Maybe I'll do a video on it one day
Great video, i'm a long time Libretto owner and i think i can give you some important advice on them. You probably noticed by now, but in case you dont know, you should partition your CF/HDD bigger than 8GB at least in two partitions. Old computers arround that time usually were unable to recognize anything bigger than 8.4GB. Right AFTER the 8.4GB bios limit, arround 32MB of RAW RAM data is stored for the automatic hibernation when running out of battery. The librettos write directly into that area of the disk ignoring and overwriting completely any partition or data it lands on beyond that 8.4GB limit. In your case with that 8GB CF card, since it's not bigger than 8.4GB the hibernation data goes on the last 50MB of usable space of the card, so if i were you i would resize your primary partition and leave about 50MB of unused unpartitioned space at the end of the disk to avoid data corruption and most likely end up with an unusable partition.
Can you explain that a small bit better for me? I just bought 3 of them, so I might POSSIBLY need to know this, I'm planning on putting an 8GB SSD in mine also...
Lets see. The libretto has a built-in always active hibernation feature that triggers when it reachs arround 10% battery capacity. This hibernation works different from the one that is built in windows, instead of writing the ram data into the filesystem as a regular file, it writes raw ram data on the last 32mb of the drive (not partition but physical disk). The problem with that is that the libretto bios cant recognize (or rather cant see beyond) anything bigger than 8.4Gb, so if your HDD is bigger than that, and your partition is using the area where the raw hibernation data will land (the last 32mb of the 8.4Gb partition, not after), you will end with a corrupted filesystem frequently. To work arround this, partition the libretto drive using a modern computer with a main partition of 8.3Gb, then just after that make a new empty partition of 150mb that fills the gap from 8.3 to 8.4 gb area, thats where the hibernation data will be and will not damage anything since its a dummy partition, any other partitions beyond that will not be affected from the hibernation file since they are made beyond the range of space the libretto bios can see. Since your drive will be smaller than 8.4Gb , all you have to do is leave arround 64Mb of free unpartitioned space at the end of your drive. Now something i dont know for sure is if this is going to work the same way with a CF card/ssd. Actually the way the libretto tells where the last 32mb of drive are is not that simple, it doenst look for the last 32mb, it looks for the last 18 physical cylinders of the drive, wich are non existant on these new flash drives. Anyways is worth a try and you can always report your success with it. I hope this helps you and other libretto owners. (Sorry for the rubbish english, it's not my main language).
Sorry, i'm an idiot. The hibernation file always lands AFTER the 8.4Gb, i wrote that in a rush and didnt pay much attention because i had your 8Gb drive in mind from the beggining, Anyway you can follow the guide as is because i always add a little extra space in case the libretto feels like writting some of the data off, not the exact 32mb on the larger drives. Sorry for the mistake.
Well, it's kinda' typical for devices from the 90s to have these rather cumbersome connection setups and stuff. Then again the Libretto looks quite cool for a portable PC.
I remember when the Libretto came out and I wanted one so bad but they were just too expensive. I was an amateur radio operator and wanted one to use it for mobile APRS and for programming older Motorola two-way radio gear that required genuine DOS, and because of it's small size, the Libretto was among the ONLY option at the time. As it is with most technology it would be a joke to even consider using these ancient devices for such a task given what's available in the world of APRS today but that's the way it is with everything.
Just got a Hi Cap Battery for my Japanese L70CT from an ebay ad selling a 50ct with a none working screen- Damn chuffed. also recently recieved my PCMCIA CF adapter, CF card G1 and usb adapter for CF Card... no more wasted CDRS! So far the 70ct in question has been on battery power for over two hours :) Freakin lovin' my Libretto - Nice Vid!
Amazing video buddy ! I enjoyed it a lot ! :) I feel such nostalgic, and if I would have this computer back in the days, I would feel like a BOSS... I recently got bug for Sony Viao P mini notebook, that is similar concept, and I think these PCs were and will be best !
I have a couple of these I bought off ebay a few years ago, I got lucky because I got 2x 70ct systems with 16mb expansions installed, like 3 floppy drives, 3 docking stations with give you additional pcmcia slots, a few ac adapter and battery chargers ,extended life batteries, and a port replicator, I've replace the hardrives drives and reinstaledl the os several times, I think the last way I did it was I installed windows 3.1 first, then installed networking using a pcmcia network card, created a shared folder to copy the win 9x installation files(I use 98LITE MICRO.) Then installed windows 98 from the HDD. Although after messing with another older laptop (Compaq Armada 1585DMT),I decided that if I ever had to install windows again I would probably just use the docking station and put the install files on a CF card put the CF card into a PCMCIA adapter, use a windows 98 boot floppy and UNATA or a similar dos pcmcia storage enabler. Although it may possible to do the same thing without the need for 2 pcmcia slots, if you use a win98 or winME bootdisk with the ramdisk, you could copy unata to the ramdisk then disconnect the fdd and insert your pcmcia CF adapter, although you would still need a floppy drive.
I actually made a good ebay find which is a laptop similar to this, but its a toshiba satellite 330cds with Windows 95. Looked on the bottom and a label shows a date of 11/14/1998. Everything works including the oringinal 4 gb hard drive, floppy drive and cd-rom drive.
You can boot to the command prompt in Win95 as well. I don't remember but there was a line you could add to autoexec.bat that would cause the system to stop at the command prompt. If you wanted to get to Windows from there, you would just type "win" like Windows 3.1
I probably came across your video while watching a uxwbill video, and what a good fortune that was! It was pleasant experience! Would you mind me asking where does come from that wonderful humming noise we hear throughout the video?
Those are ADORABLE!!!! I wanted one when I was a kid but doubt I will find one now. Sony have some kind of tiny netbook? Think it was 7 inches and used a strange aspect ratio!
Damn, I want the "control nipple" and buttons on the back on modern tablets. It'd make them so much more usable. I actually had that exact ThinkPad you can see in the background as a hand-me-down, so I grew up with the nips rather than touchpads, and in absence of mouse, this is the best thing you can have, not even touchscreen comes close.
Also for being a mid-90's laptop, that has a really nice display. Most laptops at the time had those junk passive matrix displays that looked like you were looking through drunk goggles.
still have all the accessories that came with it, including floppy drive and port replicator. Yes, I'll be putting it on Ebay soon, as much as I hate parting with it, but it's a thing of beauty.
Awesome review man! I just bought the limited edition W100 LIbretto recently in Japan, you should check it out.How is your Libretto going? have you tried ARos the Amiga x86 OS on it by any chance? Make more Libretto videos, I am thinking to purchasing the 110 and also a Sony Vaio UX which was a cool UMPC.
Thanks for the demo, I'm trying the SD to 2.5" IDE card for mine with an 8GB ultra high fast SD card. 93Mb/s read should be snappy on a PATA 66 line. This is my post apocalyptic computer of choice. Adlib Tracker forever!!!
I love this old small form factor Windows 95/98 laptops. Hopefully i can snag one of these up, and if i do I will put up a video of Microsoft Bob running on it too 😂
WOOOOOOOW what a cool review. Is it just me or did the Pentium (1) seems very stable with windows 95. I remember my Pentium (1) 166mhz mmx would stay on for months on windows 95 and was an acting server. man the good old days. Wish I could get my hands on those neat little devices jsut to play around with.
2 small complaints: 1) Given the limits of the old Parallel ATA interface as far as data transfer speeds goes, you'd never see increases in read/write speeds like you'd find with modern Sata3 and M.2 drives 2) You can run DOOM on most newer PCs with ZDoom and forks of Zdoom like GZDoom.
I just got a Libretto 50M (A 50CT with a Touch screen believe it or not). Sadly, it was not taken the best care of-- It had a crack on the right side of the hinge (Which I can fix no problem), and the corner piece of the Hard Drive caddy Cover/door was broken off and missing a screw. So now I'm on the hunt to find a parts 50CT so I can get me my HDD Door and screw for it (They are very long). Once I've got everything settled I'll be overclocking from the Stock 75Mhz to 166Mhz, and installing an SD card in an IDE adapter for a high performance SSD equivalent. I found a company in Germany that sells NEW (Yes New) Libretto battery's from old stock, which is amazing. They are quite reasonable as well. Anyways, I keep coming back to this video as I would like to try the ram stacking thing you mentioned.
AIO inc. Yes you can, very easily. Out of the more than dozen in my collection; not a single one is running stock. You can only overclock by soldering some jumpers on the motherboard. There (As far as I'm aware) isn't any software configurable settings for the Pentium at the time (all on the motherboard). Everything is controlled either by the BSEL jumpers on the chip itself, or manipulating the PLL chip that generates the FSB. I usually overclock the PLL from 60Mhz FSB to 66Mhz, then change the multiplier which nets me 166Mhz. MAJOR improvement in speed. Believe it of not, a lot of them actually have underclocked 120Mhz Pentiums inside, as Intel stopped making the 70Mhz versions that where used prior. Here is a picture for you: www.appuntidigitali.it/site/wp-content/uploads/motherboard.jpg
Mine has 32MB RAM in it, and since it's the 70CT it has the same processor as yours. The only difference is I have a 40GB hard drive in mine, I had a spare laptop that wasn't worth spending time fixing so I used parts from it elsewhere. 98 Plus! works good on it as well, I haven't tried out Golf 1998 Lite yet but the Lose your marbles! plays great,
Keyboard looks so strange. When you filmed it from above as you were taking the computer appart it almost looked like the keyboard was a printed out picture
Mine actually came with the docking station. It comes with a lot of useful things. I'd like to set mine up similar to yours.... but I'm quite stupid with old Windows things, sadly.(Even though I grew up with them)
Nice video! Its possible to run DOS games with Win95 and will detect sound card or you must install MSDOS?? Im thinking buying a 50 ct for play dos games in this tinny machine
BrainSeepsOut There were, but they were given horrible reviews, and the Atom processor struggled to just run the core system at the resolution of the screen. Given the tiny screen, and the center-of-keyboard navpoint, I'd suggest passing. I picked up a Libretto 70CT a few months back and love it.
+Doogie Rick How do you put the os on the compact flash? I dont know how to do it. I want to install windows 98 on my 50CT but i'm not sure how you had put the os on the compact flash. When I start mine up it just says "Missing Operating System.
6:10 where did you get that compact flash adapter? I can't find a links that have it for sale; all out of stock. Did people stop making it or something?
It's kinda hilarious, but I actually want one of these to be able to hotsync some of my serial Palms, as I currently have an older desktop fulfilling that purpose. This would be awesome! with Windows 98 SE!
Awesome video but the 50ct never had a pentium mmx processor, it had a 75 mhz pentium replace later by a 120 mhz pentium (without mmx) so why yours has a mmx sticker on it ? If you have the answere, i'm interested !
This is probably one of the coolest videos i have watched on youtube since 2009 (thats when i started watching youtube) just to see how fast a computer from the 90's was, awesome 🎮👾👾💻📼📻📺🔌🎚📠
I cannot stop watching this video! I am legitimately addicted to vintage computers!
Same lol
Me too. I speak to you from inside an asylum just for old Toshiba Laptop Addicts. Come and join us! Its fun!
Same here
Man I miss that look of Windows 95 Plus. Looks much better than newer Windows versions. Have to build myself a retro PC. Thanks for the great video
I love these! I picked one up about 13 years ago, which now serves as my "retro PC' for running retro programs I write on.
this looks like something you would see in a spy movie from the 90's just to look cool.
what a blast from the past. Now I want one of these Libretto, just because
Picked one 70 CT with dock, adapter and floppy drive for 50 bucks... pure mint condition.
They normally retailed around 1600 back in 1998.
Funny the drivers are still available on the toshiba website.
I took it apart so everyone could see what one would look like inside. You wouldn't want to see a rare car or buy a new one without looking under the hood right?
13:37 Druaga1? That guy puts an SSD/Solid State Storage on anything on the face of this planet.
Broccoli hey another druaga1 watcher
ayyy
hell yeah
I love these computers, really nice universal adapter you got too.
Hey, loved your video. I own a Libretto 70CT myself. Ended up aquiring it from Ebay and paid $160 for mine, but its fully functional. Wanted one ever since I saw it in the 90's.
I want one of these. Even with its Pentium MMX processor and Windows 95.
XgamerGR I picked one up. They're cool if you're a real computer nerd (and chances are you are one if you saw this video :P). I put Windows 98 on mine and it runs all right. It slows down just a tiny bit when I'm playing mp3 stuff as it isn't exactly optimized, but she's handled some late 90's games just fine.
Well its awesome for carrying your files and documents evewhere and also some old games! :D
Most definitely :D. Right now I'm hacking mine to act sorta like a laptop-x86-Raspberry-Pi sort of rig, by soldering stuff to the parallel port. Maybe I'll do a video on it one day
Great video, i'm a long time Libretto owner and i think i can give you some important advice on them.
You probably noticed by now, but in case you dont know, you should partition your CF/HDD bigger than 8GB at least in two partitions.
Old computers arround that time usually were unable to recognize anything bigger than 8.4GB. Right AFTER the 8.4GB bios limit, arround 32MB of RAW RAM data is stored for the automatic hibernation when running out of battery. The librettos write directly into that area of the disk ignoring and overwriting completely any partition or data it lands on beyond that 8.4GB limit.
In your case with that 8GB CF card, since it's not bigger than 8.4GB the hibernation data goes on the last 50MB of usable space of the card, so if i were you i would resize your primary partition and leave about 50MB of unused unpartitioned space at the end of the disk to avoid data corruption and most likely end up with an unusable partition.
Can you explain that a small bit better for me? I just bought 3 of them, so I might POSSIBLY need to know this, I'm planning on putting an 8GB SSD in mine also...
Lets see. The libretto has a built-in always active hibernation feature that triggers when it reachs arround 10% battery capacity. This hibernation works different from the one that is built in windows, instead of writing the ram data into the filesystem as a regular file, it writes raw ram data on the last 32mb of the drive (not partition but physical disk). The problem with that is that the libretto bios cant recognize (or rather cant see beyond) anything bigger than 8.4Gb, so if your HDD is bigger than that, and your partition is using the area where the raw hibernation data will land (the last 32mb of the 8.4Gb partition, not after), you will end with a corrupted filesystem frequently. To work arround this, partition the libretto drive using a modern computer with a main partition of 8.3Gb, then just after that make a new empty partition of 150mb that fills the gap from 8.3 to 8.4 gb area, thats where the hibernation data will be and will not damage anything since its a dummy partition, any other partitions beyond that will not be affected from the hibernation file since they are made beyond the range of space the libretto bios can see. Since your drive will be smaller than 8.4Gb , all you have to do is leave arround 64Mb of free unpartitioned space at the end of your drive. Now something i dont know for sure is if this is going to work the same way with a CF card/ssd. Actually the way the libretto tells where the last 32mb of drive are is not that simple, it doenst look for the last 32mb, it looks for the last 18 physical cylinders of the drive, wich are non existant on these new flash drives. Anyways is worth a try and you can always report your success with it.
I hope this helps you and other libretto owners. (Sorry for the rubbish english, it's not my main language).
Okay, thanks for explaining it for me! 1 last thing though, HOW exactly do I format it like that? Thats my problem...
Sorry, i'm an idiot. The hibernation file always lands AFTER the 8.4Gb, i wrote that in a rush and didnt pay much attention because i had your 8Gb drive in mind from the beggining, Anyway you can follow the guide as is because i always add a little extra space in case the libretto feels like writting some of the data off, not the exact 32mb on the larger drives.
Sorry for the mistake.
Thanks! Hope I didn't keep you up, it's 2:31 AM here, so good night to everybody!
Well, it's kinda' typical for devices from the 90s to have these rather cumbersome connection setups and stuff. Then again the Libretto looks quite cool for a portable PC.
Ever wanted one of these, ever since i saw this video 3 years ago.
And I finally managed to get a Libretto 70 CT recently
Looks like a really nice clear screen on this.
I remember when the Libretto came out and I wanted one so bad but they were just too expensive. I was an amateur radio operator and wanted one to use it for mobile APRS and for programming older Motorola two-way radio gear that required genuine DOS, and because of it's small size, the Libretto was among the ONLY option at the time. As it is with most technology it would be a joke to even consider using these ancient devices for such a task given what's available in the world of APRS today but that's the way it is with everything.
Just got a Hi Cap Battery for my Japanese L70CT from an ebay ad selling a 50ct with a none working screen- Damn chuffed. also recently recieved my PCMCIA CF adapter, CF card G1 and usb adapter for CF Card... no more wasted CDRS! So far the 70ct in question has been on battery power for over two hours :)
Freakin lovin' my Libretto - Nice Vid!
This video was one of my first video watching an old computer. I watched this in 2014 and i was 11yo back then😂.
I have one of these, I LOVED it. Took it to England in 1996, the airport security folks were completely unnerved as to what it was, haha.
This looks so cyberpunk with the IBM cd rom drive and stereo speakers attached to the sides!
The cylinder near the BIOS chip is a crystal(clock speed, usually multiplied by PLL).
Sweet machine. Toshiba laptops were the biz back then.
Love your Parallel port do hickey..
Gonna get one of those.
Omg that screen is fucking beautiful! Especially with the blue wallpaper and beautiful retro icons! Im jelly
I did have one that came with all accessories and packaging. it came with two original batteries actually, so you can swap it anytime you need it.
Amazing video buddy ! I enjoyed it a lot ! :) I feel such nostalgic, and if I would have this computer back in the days, I would feel like a BOSS... I recently got bug for Sony Viao P mini notebook, that is similar concept, and I think these PCs were and will be best !
Woah, I want one of these. The design reminds me of my Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT, but it's a bulky 11,3" laptop from '96.
PROTOCỢL keep that computer.
Rui Nunes I've still got it and it's working well, evn got an hour of battery life after all these years.
I have a couple of these I bought off ebay a few years ago, I got lucky because I got 2x 70ct systems with 16mb expansions installed, like 3 floppy drives, 3 docking stations with give you additional pcmcia slots, a few ac adapter and battery chargers ,extended life batteries, and a port replicator, I've replace the hardrives drives and reinstaledl the os several times, I think the last way I did it was I installed windows 3.1 first, then installed networking using a pcmcia network card, created a shared folder to copy the win 9x installation files(I use 98LITE MICRO.) Then installed windows 98 from the HDD. Although after messing with another older laptop (Compaq Armada 1585DMT),I decided that if I ever had to install windows again I would probably just use the docking station and put the install files on a CF card put the CF card into a PCMCIA adapter, use a windows 98 boot floppy and UNATA or a similar dos pcmcia storage enabler. Although it may possible to do the same thing without the need for 2 pcmcia slots, if you use a win98 or winME bootdisk with the ramdisk, you could copy unata to the ramdisk then disconnect the fdd and insert your pcmcia CF adapter, although you would still need a floppy drive.
I actually made a good ebay find which is a laptop similar to this, but its a toshiba satellite 330cds with Windows 95. Looked on the bottom and a label shows a date of 11/14/1998. Everything works including the oringinal 4 gb hard drive, floppy drive and cd-rom drive.
Loved the SSD speed..tip - with Windows 95, if you install DOS on c: before Windows, the command prompt is superior - you can restart in pure msdos.
You can boot to the command prompt in Win95 as well. I don't remember but there was a line you could add to autoexec.bat that would cause the system to stop at the command prompt. If you wanted to get to Windows from there, you would just type "win" like Windows 3.1
I probably came across your video while watching a uxwbill video, and what a good fortune that was!
It was pleasant experience!
Would you mind me asking where does come from that wonderful humming noise we hear throughout the video?
I missed out on so much tech from the mid nineties to the early 00s. I really want to get all this stuff so I can learn to use it.
I still love the Libretto series. Also love the Olivetti quaderno series, pity I don't have got one..
Those are ADORABLE!!!! I wanted one when I was a kid but doubt I will find one now. Sony have some kind of tiny netbook? Think it was 7 inches and used a strange aspect ratio!
Damn, I want the "control nipple" and buttons on the back on modern tablets. It'd make them so much more usable.
I actually had that exact ThinkPad you can see in the background as a hand-me-down, so I grew up with the nips rather than touchpads, and in absence of mouse, this is the best thing you can have, not even touchscreen comes close.
Also for being a mid-90's laptop, that has a really nice display. Most laptops at the time had those junk passive matrix displays that looked like you were looking through drunk goggles.
every time he pans over that rambo vhs i chuckle for god knows what reason.
still have all the accessories that came with it, including floppy drive and port replicator. Yes, I'll be putting it on Ebay soon, as much as I hate parting with it, but it's a thing of beauty.
I found this interesting, I like how you got all the adapters and odds n ends to work, and be useful.
That thing is really cool for the late 90's
That's pretty amazing, Toshiba had the NetBook idea going on back then apparently!
Awesome! Found another retro tech channel. I love it. Definitely gonna subscribe.
I had one of these years ago and lost it which sucks but I loved it, I wish there were modern versions of these
HOLY MOTHER OF DOOM HAVE I BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!! WHOOHOO!!!!
this thing has more interchangeable parts than my 2015 $350 HP laptop
Great video. I envy you for owning such beautiful piece of hardwares. But that background noise is just killing me
oh man, i see the sone has the Windows 95 PLUS! pack installed, i remember those themes, and wallpapers and sounds. so cool. :)
Good old stuff... I like this video.
Awesome review man! I just bought the limited edition W100 LIbretto recently in Japan, you should check it out.How is your Libretto going? have you tried ARos the Amiga x86 OS on it by any chance? Make more Libretto videos, I am thinking to purchasing the 110 and also a Sony Vaio UX which was a cool UMPC.
Thanks for the demo, I'm trying the SD to 2.5" IDE card for mine with an 8GB ultra high fast SD card. 93Mb/s read should be snappy on a PATA 66 line. This is my post apocalyptic computer of choice. Adlib Tracker forever!!!
I have to say, this little computer is kind of neat.
this would make a great music instrument with the right software
I love this old small form factor Windows 95/98 laptops. Hopefully i can snag one of these up, and if i do I will put up a video of Microsoft Bob running on it too 😂
WOOOOOOOW what a cool review. Is it just me or did the Pentium (1) seems very stable with windows 95. I remember my Pentium (1) 166mhz mmx would stay on for months on windows 95 and was an acting server. man the good old days. Wish I could get my hands on those neat little devices jsut to play around with.
you re absolutely crazy , the entire video is great !
Awesome just go to bed now so i gonna check it later! it were populair machines back in 2000 as "netbook" :)
Thanks for the teardown. Very nice unit.
And you finally broke the screen of this beauntifull small and old computer.
Using a CF card as a hard drive in one of these is a great idea!
Also: 'X1' inside the display pannel is more than likely a Clock Crystal, as crystals usually have an X# or Y# name.
nice bro, that thing is really sweet! i want one lol
This is really cool.
I GOTS 3 OF DEM YASH!
2 small complaints:
1) Given the limits of the old Parallel ATA interface as far as data transfer speeds goes, you'd never see increases in read/write speeds like you'd find with modern Sata3 and M.2 drives
2) You can run DOOM on most newer PCs with ZDoom and forks of Zdoom like GZDoom.
I just got a Libretto 50M (A 50CT with a Touch screen believe it or not). Sadly, it was not taken the best care of-- It had a crack on the right side of the hinge (Which I can fix no problem), and the corner piece of the Hard Drive caddy Cover/door was broken off and missing a screw. So now I'm on the hunt to find a parts 50CT so I can get me my HDD Door and screw for it (They are very long). Once I've got everything settled I'll be overclocking from the Stock 75Mhz to 166Mhz, and installing an SD card in an IDE adapter for a high performance SSD equivalent. I found a company in Germany that sells NEW (Yes New) Libretto battery's from old stock, which is amazing. They are quite reasonable as well. Anyways, I keep coming back to this video as I would like to try the ram stacking thing you mentioned.
Be sure to upload a video when you get it working right!
The hard drive doors are a common problem, two of my four machines are broken.
How can you overclock these? I'm not sure that's even possible, the BIOS doesn't have and options for it.
AIO inc. Yes you can, very easily. Out of the more than dozen in my collection; not a single one is running stock. You can only overclock by soldering some jumpers on the motherboard. There (As far as I'm aware) isn't any software configurable settings for the Pentium at the time (all on the motherboard). Everything is controlled either by the BSEL jumpers on the chip itself, or manipulating the PLL chip that generates the FSB. I usually overclock the PLL from 60Mhz FSB to 66Mhz, then change the multiplier which nets me 166Mhz. MAJOR improvement in speed. Believe it of not, a lot of them actually have underclocked 120Mhz Pentiums inside, as Intel stopped making the 70Mhz versions that where used prior.
Here is a picture for you:
www.appuntidigitali.it/site/wp-content/uploads/motherboard.jpg
Asaggy Noodle
Ah, okay.
Basically, too much work for little gain, correct?
you are lucky to find stuff like this
I agree with the usage of this portable computer. *looks at all the DOS games*
Did you ever do the ram stacking mod on the 70ct with the 50ct ram? I cant get this out of my head!
I like what you are doing dude. Keep it up!
damn you're a baller dude. Theres at least seven dollars in cash on the bed
Mine has 32MB RAM in it, and since it's the 70CT it has the same processor as yours. The only difference is I have a 40GB hard drive in mine, I had a spare laptop that wasn't worth spending time fixing so I used parts from it elsewhere.
98 Plus! works good on it as well, I haven't tried out Golf 1998 Lite yet but the Lose your marbles! plays great,
Keyboard looks so strange. When you filmed it from above as you were taking the computer appart it almost looked like the keyboard was a printed out picture
Mine actually came with the docking station. It comes with a lot of useful things.
I'd like to set mine up similar to yours.... but I'm quite stupid with old Windows things, sadly.(Even though I grew up with them)
Sim tower! man i loved that game!!! as well as sim city, gta, doom. oh man the memories lol
This is so cool.
having good time watching this, thanks!
Nice video! Its possible to run DOS games with Win95 and will detect sound card or you must install MSDOS?? Im thinking buying a 50 ct for play dos games in this tinny machine
As long as it can play DOOM, its good.
It can play DooM II as well
i want one of these now lol
AIO inc. man I see you on every Druaga video
wow that is mint condition you got a score on that good one!
I want that computer so bad, I'll pick one up myself
Oh man, Windows 95 setup....last time I saw one of those was the first and last time I installed Windows 95 back in...95-6.
Weren't there Sony Vaios recently released in this size?
BrainSeepsOut There were, but they were given horrible reviews, and the Atom processor struggled to just run the core system at the resolution of the screen. Given the tiny screen, and the center-of-keyboard navpoint, I'd suggest passing.
I picked up a Libretto 70CT a few months back and love it.
That would have been amazing to carry about in 95 😎👍
I was spending more of the video eyeing up the IBM ThinkPad in the background rather than watching the Toshiba.
Too common, too boring :p
But still awesome :D
Cool. Fun content. Keep making fun stuff. High Five
+Doogie Rick How do you put the os on the compact flash? I dont know how to do it. I want to install windows 98 on my 50CT but i'm not sure how you had put the os on the compact flash. When I start mine up it just says "Missing Operating System.
I've always wanted one of these
6:10 where did you get that compact flash adapter? I can't find a links that have it for sale; all out of stock. Did people stop making it or something?
Wow. I need one! Finally playing c&c, doom and siedler :P
20:00 Gameboy PC xD
Edit: May I ask you about the resolution of this screen? It actually looks pretty nice for being that small.
I'm pretty sure it's 1024x768.
FAMICOMASTER Not that much. I bet it's 800x600 since it said "SVGA" when he was installing W95
Oy vey. I'd love one of these. Portable TES: Arena and Daggerfall in a Gameboy style format? YES PLEASE!!!
I have the disks for the laptop I can give it to you through download, doesn't include os code!
It is awesome!
Just curious...I don't plan to buy this as I've no money ATM, but do you still have it? If so, where is it now, and if not, how did it go?
Imagine paying $14 for something like that. Truly different times.
It's kinda hilarious, but I actually want one of these to be able to hotsync some of my serial Palms, as I currently have an older desktop fulfilling that purpose. This would be awesome! with Windows 98 SE!
If you still have the 50CT lying around (even if its in separate plastic bags), how much do you want for it? I'll buy it if it's not too expesive :D
Were these compact laptops made in 1995 or 1999?? They are impressive trough.
Awesome video but the 50ct never had a pentium mmx processor, it had a 75 mhz pentium replace later by a 120 mhz pentium (without mmx) so why yours has a mmx sticker on it ? If you have the answere, i'm interested !
Its a nintendo DS, with windows 9000!
This is really impressive, nice :o