I’m as straight as a freshly ironed tie. But honestly I could care less about someone else’s sexual orientation especially when they have a quality RU-vid channel with good content that I enjoy watching. That’s all that matters to me anyway.
I thought this was a video about an old laptop yet people comment about other things from a nearly 10minute video they comment on something he said for like a second ? Why shouldn't he ? Should he lie about who he is than ? People are so judgemental it's sickening
Seriously those of you on here hating just because he is gay need to grow up and get a life. Just because he's different than you doesn't give you grounds to be so bigoted. And This is coming from a straight guy. These old toshiba laptops are amazing; The internal power supply, while bulky, is very innovative and usually means that the computer is, in fact, sturdy. Very nice video.
does anyone else just love his voice? every video i watch just relaxes me and makes me smile his voice is just so relaxing and smooth but anyways haha nice videos man keep up the good work
It's tough to find a good entry-level job involving computers. My cousin got a job with IBM right out of college, but her mother works there, so that was a big help. I worked for a real estate agency through college and now work for a law firm, so I'm not in the field of my degree, but I'm pretty happy with my job nonetheless.
i was quite shocked when he said, that he had a boyfriend :D but just because that was the last thing i expected from a random video on youtube, im gay myself and its really nice to see that now a guy can talk on youtube about a boyfriend and its totally ok :D you made my day the best day in this month :D
I love those old Toshibas I owned a Satellite 300Cdt running windows 98 back in the day And i still own a Libretto 110Ct lovely little things from that era which had nicer screens than it's big Brother the satellites The trackpoint on these satellites were absolutly the best
Hi I still have mine still works, though mine cost a bit more than your's back in the day. I bought mine from Computer City in Sunrise Fort Lauderdale in June 96 for the princely sum of $3200 went back to the hotel unpacked it and caught my flight to Buenos Aires where I was working leaving all the packaging in my hotel room. It served me well all over South America until I retired it to the living room back in the UK as a Jukebox!
Nostalgic! The first ever laptop that my laptop was a toshiba! And it was similiar like this one and i have soo many memories and times spent with this!
In the limited space in a laptop, you get better sound from one larger mono speaker, rather than two smaller stereo speakers. Today, some laptops use a combination: one mono woofer in the center to give you more bass, and two stereo tweeters on the sides to give you the stereo effect.
This was the first laptop I had when I was a kid. I would play Roller Coaster Tycoon and Sim City and any other game I could from that time. It worked really well for the time that I had it.
I've been following you for about 4 years and I had no idea you were gay... How did I miss out on this? Now the term "marry me" is not only possible, legally, but even more relevant lol.
I had one of these and that circuit board thing happened to mine too. I have a ten year old Toshiba laptop now that I use only for music and as a library for video. It's a little gem, but it's also been rebuilt several years ago after it bricked.
Damm man dating in college is challenging. My girlfriend of seven years dumped me In the middle of the semester. That was an awful experience and it resulted to a probation but I survived. My laptop in college was an IBM T40 and that made college enjoyable. Good times and as usual excellent video!
Hi. I have managed to collect three of these - two non working and - guess what - the third works ;-) I'm planning on building a Frankenstein version with the best parts. Kudos!!
I'm a subscriber and I didn't know he was gay till I watched this video, but it doesn't matter. He makes cool videos and he's very knowledgeable about computers and old / obsolete technology.
I found a Satellite Pro 440cx dumped outside someone's house, in perfect condition and working, just without a battery. It was full of old programs like Touch and Microsoft Office 95.
OMG...the Satellite Pro 410CS was my first laptop back in college. The built-in adaptor was fantastic and the plastic body felt a lot more durable than other laptops at the time...I regretted switching to a Presario 1610 afterwards. The best memory I have of the 410CS is the start-up program...I can remember being mesmerized with my first laptop, following the start-up directions as the disk played "I can see clearly now" in the background. :)
Man this video brings back memories. Back when I was in middle school my parents got me one of these. My school district let students purchase Sattellite Pro 330 CDS laptops at wholesale pricing for $10 a week. I can't even remember what happened to that thing, but I used through the beginning of high school when it became hopelessly obsolete.
@MetallicBill During this era, Toshiba used letters to indicate the LCD type: S = "dual scan" passive matrix; X = "fast scan" improved passive matrix; and T = TFT active matrix.
I'm gay and proud of it I'm also into computers and run everything from unix Linux windows 7 to windows 95 so who ever has a problem with him being gay has a problem with me oh also nice to see someone still has a toshiba satellite pro from the 90s my friend has one he was gonna give me but idk if he still is
Yes, it can run on any voltage around the world (90-250 volts AC, 50 or 60 Hz). This model originally came with Windows 3.11 or Windows 95. Windows 95 and 98 boot to the DOS prompt if you add the line "BootGUI=0" to the hidden C:\MSDOS.SYS file.
One of the problems I have specifically with new computers (especially ultrabooks) is that their power supplies are just massive. Computers like these actually are beneficial because as you stated they take up much less space and can be fit into small desks. Can't say that about many powerful laptops these days
I have a 400CDT that's currently my favorite laptop for DOS and early Windows 95 stuff. I mostly use it currently to program my Timex Data Link watch via an IR LED hooked into the VGA connector on the back of the machine, though, haha. But I love it for DOS stuff because it's a native 640x480 display which means DOS stuff that would normally run with black borders on 800x600 laptops from the same era will run full-screen on this thing.
I have a Tecra from around the same time, and I can upgrade mine to 144 Megs of RAM, but I only have 48 currently installed it also has a 2 Gig HDD. Its a pretty good little laptop.
I had the successor 15 years ago (found in scrap) with Pentium 150 in it and the stereo speakers. Used to watch ... some videos ... when I studied back then. Luckily I had the active matrix with 16.7 million colors. Had the exact same thing but only CD-ROM no floppy and they did not throw away the floppy. The power supply was dead indeed but my brother and father opened up, replaced the contacts with a standard round plug and gave me a generic power supply which worked great together! And the stereo was not that bad, I wish my smartphone had that kind of sound quality! Windows 98 and a battery that still lasted like an hour. My school still had plenty 386 running DOS back then and 5 PCs with Athlon CPUs and Windows 98 but you had to kill somebody or come very early to get to use one of those... so relaxing to have a computer on my own then which worked better than the athlons as they used an imaging program at each boot and everybody had to shutdown when they finished working! Great times... other still wait you do your stuff!
Just bought one for £30 mailing inc .I got a Tecra 510 CDT (£42) last week, and a Tecra 720 still to arrive. with CDs, manuals and original case.That cost £72 but its mint. Usually if they are still working , they will continue to do so for another 20 years. The first two were listed as for parts, but many recycling centers have no interest in these and never bother to check them properly. So I got lucky, twice. These Toshibas are built so well that it amazes me how awful their laptops became just a few years later. But in the nIneties they were the best built and the best designed.
@JoeyJoeJoe5000 This is actually a "dual scan" passive matrix LCD. The original ones from the early '90s were even worse. Many games were nearly unplayable due to all the lag and smearing. But color laptops were so expensive back then that they were not intended to be games machines, anyway.
Cool video dude! I had a Toshiba Satellite Pro too back in 1996 or 1997. But mine was a Pentium 100 MHz. That thing with the built in AC adapter was so great. I didnt have to worry about carrying those bricks, I just took a normal cable of any radio or other electric device. I also miss the keyboard in those old notebooks. They were so comfortable. I used to play Wing Commander 3 and 4 in taht latop. Amazing video, nice memories.
Enter the command "BootGUI=0" under the "[Options]" sections of the MSDOS.SYS file (it is a hidden file in the root directory of the boot drive, usually C:). This works for Windows 95, 98, 98 Second Edition, and ME.
@Neoplan6o You can try opening it up and taking out and then reseating any socketed chips you find, including the RAM. On the 410CS the BIOS backup battery is hidden underneath the keyboard. If the 110CS is like that, I show how to get to the battery in my video "How to disable the password on an old Toshiba laptop".
Two friends of mine had laptops like this one. One friend had the 400CS model. it was a nice machine and he didn't let anyone touch it but he would only let me use it if I was typing. and the other friend had a similar model maybe a little later and one day he was playing music on it. Both machines had that tiny mono speaker on the front.
I had one of those or a very similar one when I was 6 or so. Battery still lasted a solid 40 minutes. (This was 9-10 years ago) It has Windows 95. I used it for old games and stuff since at the time I didn't have a PCIMCIA Ethernet adapter and the old 10MBPS Netgear WiFi PCMCIA adapter (I still have it somewhere) obviously didn't work with 95.
When you get used to new screens you forget how crappy old ones were. Like this one - it has that "fade out" effect when you minimize window or move the mouse.
I bought this one yesterday with a double sided leather carrying case, some floppys, an external FDD, a Compaq 2 buttons mouse, original power cable and a modem... For 2€
You edit the hidden MSDOS.SYS file in the C:\ directory, and under the [Options] section, add "Bootgui=0". Google "msdos.sys boot options" for more info. If you combine this with the "Disable fast shutdown" setting (Google that phrase for more info), then the computer will also return to the DOS prompt again when you shutdown Windows.
I had one of these when I was 6 or 7. Before you think I was a rich kid, that was in 2006. the nostalgia.. This laptop is the reason I still prefer the pointer stick over the trackpad. (I hate using laptops without them)
Well, that's impossible since laptops nowadays (especially low-budget ones) are cutting budgets off by not supplying the second power source. The only two (or three) manufacturers I've known to still produce these things (or similar) these days are Dell, Fujitsu and (possibly the higher models of) Toshiba. And these are all enterprise-entry brands.
Mostly I got them from flea markets, thrift stores, and also donations from people who were otherwise going to just throw away their old computer, so they give it to me instead. Also I tend to keep all of my older computers as I upgrade through the years, instead of getting rid of the old one whenever I get a new one.
I've got a 440CDX (133Mhz Pentium 144MB of RAM, Win98SE) still works, Hard drive is starting to have issues (bad sectors on occasion) but after 17 years that's no big surprise. Still very usable, and the key layout between it and my far newer Toshiba Satellite is "mentally compatible" for the most part. Still a Passive Matrix screen though. the difference between it and my newer laptop (or desktop LCD) is like night and day.
@treborpoop Every model is different. In this one the hard drive is underneath the battery. In others there is a slide-in tray on the front or side. I'm not familiar with the 220CDS so I'm not sure exactly how it is arranged.
Hey ive been watching your videos for a while and LOVE THEM! I was wondering, where did your love of electronics come from and what was your first pc? Best part about you is you read comments so you’ll get to this eventually lol.
I think it's a meme for Toshiba DC plugs to break, i had one where the connector fell into the laptop. I had to open the laptop and add tape around the connector which was just held in with plastic.and the connector just used a wire to connect to the motherboard. That computer still kinda works, but it heavily beat up because my sister used it for years. Even still, Toshiba isn't what they used to be. Their Smart TV's are nice though, I'll give them that.
If you actually put your ear up to the speaker while it's turned down, it's actually a little mix of mono/stereo. I've done that with my 410CS, and my 400CDT.
If you compare this to a ThinkPad 570 which was also available 10 years ago from 2009... That 570 would beat this thing hands down except for the extreme high price. Well it is understandable when you are in college you don't have that much budget for these things and instead you buy an old one. I would say running one of these in 1999 would be like running a Pentium D today. It is completely doable, everything including Internet browsing works just fine but definitely will not handle any games and intensive apps any good
Actually if you say circa 1997 then 560 would still be better than this thing except for price. That price is not something a normal college student would afford.
Turns out it worked fine, only thing wrong was someone was inside it and had the keyboard connector seated completely wrong, just ordered a CF card for it because the hard drive locked up.
Old laptops were built to be fixed if something went wrong, you could replace parts easily. Now they are just one big piece, so if one part goes bad, you have to chuck the whole thing out.
Does the 1990's Tecra series have the same problem with the charger breaking the circuit board? I just got a Tecra 710 cdt and currently am waiting for the charger to get mailed, and I am a little concerned about this, since I'm not too graceful with things.
So I just found my grandpas Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop. I have it charging right now but I know nothing about computers. I want to play around on it and see what it's about. Does the Satellite mean that it doesn't have to connect to the wifi? I think it would be really fun to take some time to learn about this computer. Any ideas on where to start or what to do with it? I want to keep it and maybe upgrade it just for fun, learn a bit about computers in the interim... I'm thinking of trying to find the manual online... If anyone has any ideas throw 'em at me :) I really like the feel of this and the way it looks. To me it's a computer. And I like it a lot.
So many comments about sexual orientation, ridiculous. I had no idea the satellite series was around back then, my mom swears by Toshiba its the only brand she'll buy
Modern toshiba laptops are utter crap, my one has a dead headphone port, a dead battery (computer won't boot with the battery in it), dead clock battery, and the original hard drive failed. This was a 2014 laptop that had light use and lived most it's life on a table
Does it have any sort of video output? Like VGA, or S-Video? Using that passive matrix screen must have been pretty hard to use for day to day tasks until you get used to it.
@MixerVM u could use selective startup its easier I THINK you have to press f8 b4 9.x starts up. Something should say selective startup or something like that. Select and when it asks you for gui press n
@vwestlife That certainly sounds logical to me, anyway the speakers are often times so close together that stereo separation isn't always that good, it's no hardship to use headphones with a laptop. I'm pretty sure my mother's MacBook has a monaural woofer and 2 tiny little stereo speakers at the back, the sound quality on that machine wasn't too bad actually, but when I used it I mostly used it with headphones.
