Toshiba T1200
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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.
It was equipped with an Intel 80C86 processor at 9.54 MHz, 1MB RAM of which 384kB could be used for LIM EMS or as a RAMdisk, CGA
graphics card, one 720Kb 3.5" floppy drive
and one 20 MB hard drive (Some models had two floppy drives.) MS-DOS
3.30 was included with the laptop. It was the first laptop with a swappable battery pack. Its original price was $6499.
The T1200's hard drive had an unusual 26-pin interface made by JVC, incompatible with ST506/412 or ATA interfaces. Floppy drives were connected using similar 26-pin connectors.
The computer had many unique functions, such as Hard RAM - a small part of RAM was battery-backed and could be used as non-volatile hard drive. Another function allowed to suspend the system or power control the hard drive (which was still dependent on the hard disk's on/off switch).
The Toshiba T1200xe is a later model of this laptop. It had a 12Mhz 80C286 processor and a 20Mb hard disk drive. It also had 1Mb of RAM expandable to 5Mb.
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...
, first made in 1987. It was an upgraded version of the Toshiba T1100 Plus.
It was equipped with an Intel 80C86 processor at 9.54 MHz, 1MB RAM of which 384kB could be used for LIM EMS or as a RAMdisk, CGA
Color Graphics Adapter
The Color Graphics Adapter , originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's first color graphics card, and the first color computer display standard for the IBM PC....
graphics card, one 720Kb 3.5" floppy drive
Floppy disk
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles...
and one 20 MB hard drive (Some models had two floppy drives.) MS-DOS
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
3.30 was included with the laptop. It was the first laptop with a swappable battery pack. Its original price was $6499.
The T1200's hard drive had an unusual 26-pin interface made by JVC, incompatible with ST506/412 or ATA interfaces. Floppy drives were connected using similar 26-pin connectors.
The computer had many unique functions, such as Hard RAM - a small part of RAM was battery-backed and could be used as non-volatile hard drive. Another function allowed to suspend the system or power control the hard drive (which was still dependent on the hard disk's on/off switch).
The Toshiba T1200xe is a later model of this laptop. It had a 12Mhz 80C286 processor and a 20Mb hard disk drive. It also had 1Mb of RAM expandable to 5Mb.