I recently found this Retro Windows 98 and MS-DOS Gaming Laptop for only $10.00 on eBay!! Does it actually work, and is it any good? In this video, we'll do a full test, cleaning, and restoration on this Toshiba 4260 Laptop!
They really are! You can sell them on eBay, and they will do well if they’re working and in good shape. Or send me an email and let me know what you’re got. I might be interested in one or two. :-)
So awesome! That’s a great $10 find! I love where we find out if the computer will work! Also love the time lapse cleaning and my favorite is the games! Hehe
Love how excited you get when you get new retro tech! 🤗 Just curious, what’s the serial port and the vga on the back of the computer used for? Also the toothbrush hack for cleaning the computer is genius lol 😂
Hi Nikki! Serial port is used for all kinds of things… it’s the precursor to USB on modern computers. It was most commonly used for external mice, external modems, cash register peripherals, scanners, and more! The VGA port is for hooking up an external monitor before HDMI was thing.
My dad had a HP laptop that had the tv output on it, it had windows ME on it. It had a fast boot into a dvd player that you could connect to the tv, that is how we watched DVDs before my parents bought a dvd player.
Wow! That’s really cool! I never saw one of those before. I wonder if this one does that too, and that’s why part of the model number is DVD at the end.
@@retrotv1tech This is usually in the era of Win9x on home PCs and Laptops if I remember correctly. I had a couple in the past that had this video out or a s-video out.
These old Toshiba laptops were pretty cool. I've got a 4000CDT for free, unfortunately the internal keyboard doesn't work due to liquid damage so I'm trying to find a replacement. It is a great laptop for DOS games otherwise due to having both a CD drive as well as a floppy disk drive and a genuine Yamaha OPL3 chip.
Cheap Toshibas for the win! i just got a Tecra 8000 with a PII for 30 but was very water damaged. after a lot of cleaning and poking it somehow works now.
MMARA2 sorry the chat switched over when the Video ended. THe "IBM Nub" in my opinion was too "Business only focused" and didn't stand a chance in a blustering gaming market. I think it was a good idea for OS navigation, but not so much beyond that.
The IBM Nub had variance, where that there was a difference in pushing it slightly verses pushing it all the way. Kind of like an Analog stick on Console Controllers today.
Bro, I bought a laptop for $8 on ebay works great. HP elitebook 8440p 4GB i5 😂 I liked it so much I found another one mint condition, $10! Works perfect, literally mint condition, even has all the plastic bottom bumpers. 😂
@@retrotv1tech It installs low level drivers than enable the best performance of the PCI bus. Windows will almost always run with dumbed down drivers that are stock with the OS - at least since W98. The performance difference is very substantial. I had a Tecra 8000 (PII 250Mhz) and that's one of the first machines I so treated.
