The Toshiba T1000 was a laptop computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation

Toshiba

is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

 in 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with an 4.77 MHz 8OC88 processor, 512 KB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA

Color Graphics Adapter

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-compatible LCD

Liquid crystal display

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. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port

Serial port

In computing, a serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time...

 and parallel port

Parallel port

A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting various peripherals. In computing, a parallel port is a parallel communication physical interface. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port...

, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock

Real-time clock

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.

Unusually for an IBM compatible PC, the T1000 contained a 256 KB ROM with a copy of MS-DOS

MS-DOS

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 2.11. This acted as a small, read-only hard drive. Alternative operating systems could still be loaded from the floppy drive, or (if present) the ramdisk.

Along with the earlier T1100 and T1200

Toshiba T1200

The Toshiba T1200 was a laptop manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation, first made in 1987. It was an upgraded version of the Toshiba T1100 Plus....

 systems, the Toshiba T1000 was one of the early computers to feature a "laptop" form factor and battery-powered operation.

T1000 specification

Dimensions	12.2" W × 11.0" D × 2.05" H (310 × 280 × 52 mm)
Power	9 VDC, 1.1A (+ = core; - = barrel)
Weight	6.4 lbs (2.9 kg)
Video	CGA card
Sound	PC speaker PC speaker A PC speaker is a loudspeaker, built into some IBM PC compatible computers. The first IBM Personal Computer, model 5150, employed a standard 2.25 inch magnetic driven speaker. More recent computers use a piezoelectric speaker instead. The speaker allows software and firmware to provide...
Battery	Rechargeable NiCd pack (1300 mAh)
Media	1 - 720 3.5" floppy disk drive
Mouse	None
Keyboard	Selectable between PC or AT (101)

See also

• Toshiba T1100
• Toshiba T1200
  Toshiba T1200
  The Toshiba T1200 was a laptop manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation, first made in 1987. It was an upgraded version of the Toshiba T1100 Plus....
  
  
• Toshiba T3100
  Toshiba T3100
  T3100 was a laptop manufactured by Toshiba in 1986, it featured a 10 Mb hard drive, 8 MHz Intel 80286 CPU and a monochrome 9.6" gas-plasma display with a resolution of up to 640x400 pixels....