Rare Toshiba (old) Satellite with prototype thinklight

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#1 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:58 pm

I bought this from a friend for $50.00 many years ago and just found it in closet, still boots into win95

The light slips down into a cut out on the top panel of the LCD. Very cool. Wondering if anyone has ever seen one of these before?

#2 Post by **gator** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:03 pm

I like that laptop! Nice pics, Mike.

Is it me, or did all old machines have EXCELLENT keyboards? The keyboard in the above pics look like an external keyboard!

#3 Post by **ryengineer** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:10 pm

gator wrote:Is it me, or did all old machines have EXCELLENT keyboards? The keyboard in the above pics look like an external keyboard!

As time passes by companies take a notice and tend to change their design prototypes according to latest generation's requirement at that time.

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:14 pm

Man, Talk about some bezel around the screen..............

#5 Post by **gator** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:18 pm

carbon_unit wrote:Man, Talk about some bezel around the screen..............

More like, talk about the screen inbetween the bezel! hee hee!

#6 Post by **ryengineer** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:21 pm

Oh btw I'm not going to say I'm surprised at it's booting after all those years of lying around in the closet, that's something old computer are notorious for (in a good way).

#7 Post by **tomh009** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:23 pm

Hey, that's a T1910CS -- that's one of the last black models, and with a passive-matrix STN display.

I had a T1960CT, and a coworker had a T1950CS, both in beige, and both with the lovely big clip-on trackball. Moving to the pointing stick was a big shocker after that, though I don't regret now.

#8 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:24 pm

I had to replace the CMOS battery which is nothing more than a AA battery encased in plastic, after that it booted.

I will take offers if anyone is interested in this rare bird.

#9 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:29 pm

tom009 wrote:I had a T1960CT, and a coworker had a T1950CS, both in beige, and both with the lovely big clip-on trackball. Moving to the pointing stick was a big shocker after that, though I don't regret now.

tom, your're right it was weird at first but kind of a nice change from a standart mouse back in those days. Easy to control.
Did yours have the light?

#10 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:33 pm

Nice paint job; that computer looks better in black. Do you ever plan to paint over the Toshiba logo and model number and redo them so the design looks more coordinated?

#11 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:35 pm

Why Alex, whatever do you mean, that is a special production model with a one of a kind thinklight after all.

Purcy · #12 Post by **Purcy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:43 pm

Holy cow Mike, that prototype ThinkLight looks more like a streetlight!! It is huge, sort of reminds me of the old time billboards along the roadsides with the BIG huge lamps hanging over the top. Thanks for posting a photo of that antique

#13 Post by **tomh009** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:30 pm

Kyocera wrote:tom, your're right it was weird at first but kind of a nice change from a standard mouse back in those days. Easy to control.
Did yours have the light?

I don't think I had a light ... though it's been over 10 years and a lot of laptops. The 1960CT was my second one -- the first was a ZenithZ-183 with a 10 MB hard disk, MS-DOS (and no pointing device), circa 1988.

#14 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:41 pm

My Satellite Pro 430CDT has the light.

#15 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:48 pm

alex wrote:My Satellite Pro 430CDT has the light.

It would be cool to see if the lights are similar, since they are such old models, does yours have the ball mouse too?

#16 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:23 pm

No, the 430CDT has the AccuPoint mouse. In my opinion, it was a less than stellar (understatement) imitation of IBM's TrackPoint.

#17 Post by **tomh009** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:26 pm

I think the 430CDT has the stick. We had a 420 CDT in the office ... after a couple of Satellites I personally went for a Tecra 500CDT, but it was so thick (2.3"!) that typing on it made my wrists hurt. So I ended up switching to a Portege 650CT, and I've lived in subnotebook-land ever since.

#18 Post by **ryengineer** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:48 pm

Kyocera wrote:Why Alex, whatever do you mean, that is a special production model with a one of a kind thinklight after all.

I like the light and it looks little brighter than thinkpads too, perhaps adjustable as well. Now I'm surprised as nobody has made an offer yet for this rare baby.

alex wrote:My Satellite Pro 430CDT has the light.

It would be cool to compare the lights of these models.

#19 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:48 pm

I believe AccuPoint is the name Toshiba gave to their version of the stick mouse. The only difference between the 420CDT/CDS and 430CDT/CDS is the CPU. I believe the 420 had a 100mhz Pentium whereas the 430 has a 120mhz Pentium.

rek · #20 Post by **rek** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:10 pm

Many moons ago I had a Satellite Pro 410CDT, the Pentium-90 version with an 800x600 colour display. It didn't have one of these extendable lights, but the keyboard was excellent on that thing! It was also about the only thing on the [censored] machine that worked as designed (that stupid laptop was in service more often than in the field.)

It was indeed called the AccuPoint, and the nib was rubbery. Similar to the current Dell ones, but with a textured "eraser head" feeling finish, rather than a spotty top. If my memory serves correct, you got a choice of green, blue or gray rubber nibs. One other neat thing I remember was that its AC adapter was built inside the laptop itself. This was really neat, no need to carry a power brick everywhere, just a little "figure 8" power cord

It was replaced with a ThinkPad 760EL, and the rest is history

Man, back then, the 760 with NT 4.0 and a Xircom Ethernet+Modem card (28.8 modem at that! WOW!) was an unbeatable combination!

On the topic of pointing devices, does anyone remember that HP subnotebook of a similar era, with a "pop out" mouse that was on a metal tether? Those things looked sooo cool.

Temetka · #21 Post by **Temetka** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:17 am

Methinks that it was an Omnibook or something like that.

Their version of a sub-notebook.

#22 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:06 am

I had an OmniBook 800CT with the pop out mouse. It was nice when the laptop was on a desk or table but hell to use if I didn't have access to a flat surface. If memory serves me right, it was the OmniBook 600 and 800 series that used the pop out mouse.

Rare Toshiba (old) Satellite with prototype thinklight

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