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I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro that someone gave me to get it running, along with another old Compaq laptop. I gave him the other one back in working order to test it, and of course he left his job and never paid me for it. So, I am selling this one for what I put into the other one.

Here are the specs, as I know them:
Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS/810
Model: PA1225U VC
Processor: P100 (?)
HD: 810mb
Ram: 24mb
CD: 6x internal
Floppy: none
Ports: 2 PCMCIA slots, VGA, headphone jack, serial, floppy port, PS2, parallel, IR, and docking port.
OS: Win98SE installed for testing purposes
Display: 12" with 16bit color @ 800x600
Battery: Holds excellent charge
Condition: 9.5 on a scale of 1-10

This system is VERY clean, given its age. There are a couple of small marks on the top and bottom, but I was VERY suprised at how well kept this system was.

As stated above, I installed Win98SE for the purposes of testing. Everything works great. No additional drivers were needed, Win98SE found everything.

The battery appears to be in excellent shape and takes 100% charge. I began a test on it, and after 15 minutes, it only dropped to 93%. I think that is pretty good by my standards, for a mchine this old.

The only thing to really note as a warning, is that the BIOS will only allow the system to boot from the HDD or the FDD, not the CDrom. To install Win98SE, I had to remove the hard drive and begin the installation on a 600E. When Win98 went to reboot after copying the files, I switched it over to the Toshiba and put the CD (burnt copy) into the CD drive and finished installing. Easy as pie. Similar to installing an OS on an X series without a dock.

I am hoping to get $50 shipped for this nice little system, since it still has a great battery, making it totally portable, as it should be.

wow for 50 bucks this could be a [censored] leave in your car lend to people for undetermined amounts of time laptop.

If I had some spare cash lying around Id probably jump on this. Unfortunately Im in college and broke as hell.

Im sure someone will get in on this though OP

FWIW, Toshiba's laptops from the Pentium era, or at least the ones I've used, are rock solid like none other. I have a Tecra 700CT of similar vintage to the 420CDS for sale and that computer is built like a tank, plastics are very solid, screen is very good with no flex at all and the battery holds a very good charge. These laptops paired with Win95 or 98 would make a great laptop for a kid, student or someone who needs a laptop but in an evironment in which they wouldn't trust something newer and more expensive.

Bump...

I second what AK470 said about these Toshiba's being solid machines. I'm working to find tfflivemb2 an external floppy for this so that whoever ends up with it can get better use out of it. This would be a great laptop for a young kid to play with too. I don't agree that it would make a good laptop to leave in the car as I'd hate to see my windows broken or car damaged otherwise just because someone wanted to steal my 11-year old laptop!!!

- Yak

Anyone, before i send them to eBay?

I can separate them if need be.

$65 shipped for the pair?

I've got a off-beat, off-brand Pentium 200 laptop without a FDD and bios too old to boot from CD. If you don't mind, I just wanted to check with you to clarify how the load was done since I'm hoping to put the HDD in my T23 and try the same thing.

*You put the drive in as the primary drive and booted off of the CD as normal.
*Do the load- Partition, Format, yada, yada, Copy files...
*At the restart point, shut down the machine, pull the HDD and put it in the target machine along with the Windows CD.
*Start up the target machine and it should seek the CD in the drive and finish the OS load? .... even with the correct drivers?

Good luck on your Toshiba. If I didn't have so many projects in the air right now, I'd be interested.

That is exactly what I did...except with a 600E, as previously stated. I have had to do this method in the past.

NOTE: Now that there is a FDD added into the mix, this process isn't necessary, if one has a bootable floppy.

OK, final bump...$60 shipped for the pair. This allows me to get most of the $50 that the first guy owes me.

If someone is interested in one, I can work something out and split them up.