The Toshiba T1200 is a discontinued laptop that was manufactured by the
Toshiba Corporation
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure syst ...
, first made in 1987. It is an upgraded version of the
Toshiba T1100 Plus.
It is equipped with an
Intel
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80C86 processor at of which 384 KB can be used for
LIM EMS or as a
RAMdisk,
CGA graphics card, one 720 KB 3.5"
floppy drive
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and one 20 MB hard drive (Some models had two floppy drives and no hard drive controller card.)
MS-DOS
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3.30 is included with the laptop. It is the first laptop with a swappable battery pack. Its original price was 6499 USD.
The T1200's hard drive has an unusual 26-pin interface made by JVC, incompatible with ST506/412 or ATA interfaces. Floppy drives are connected using similar 26-pin connectors.
The computer has many unique functions, such as Hard RAM - a small part of RAM is battery-backed and can be used as a non-volatile hard drive. Another function allows to suspend the system or power control the hard drive (which is still dependent on the hard disk's on/off switch).
The Toshiba T1200xe is an upgraded model of this laptop, which contained a 12 MHz 80C286 processor and a 20 or 40 MB hard disk drive. It also has 1 MB of RAM expandable to 5 MB. The floppy drive was also upgraded from 720 KB to 1.44 MB.
See also
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Toshiba T1100
The Toshiba T1100 is a laptop manufactured by Toshiba in 1985, and has subsequently been described by Toshiba as "''the world's first mass-market laptop computer''". Its technical specifications were comparable to the original IBM PC desktop, using ...
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Toshiba T1000
The Toshiba T1000 was a laptop computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation in 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 KB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike ...
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Toshiba T3100
The Toshiba T3100 was a portable PC manufactured by Toshiba released in 1986. It featured a hard drive, 8 MHz Intel 80286 CPU and a black & orange 9.6" gas-plasma display with a resolution of 640x400 pixels.
The portable had for the tim ...
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Toshiba T1000LE
The Toshiba T1000LE was a Toshiba laptop made in 1990 as a member of their LE/SE/XE family. It used a 9.54/4.77 MHz Intel 80C86, with the clock speed being switchable by using function keys on the keyboard. The laptop came with a 20 MB hard dr ...
References
External links
Computer Museum article on the Toshiba T1200
IBM PC compatibles
T1200
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