The Toshiba T1100 is a
laptop manufactured by
Toshiba
, 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 systems, ...
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
floppy disks (it had no
hard drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magne ...
), a 4.77 MHz
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
80C88 CPU (a lower-power variation of the
Intel 8088
The Intel 8088 ("''eighty-eighty-eight''", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and ...
), 256 KB of conventional RAM extendable to 512 KB, and a monochrome LCD capable of displaying 80x25 text and 640x200
CGA graphics. Its original price was 1899 USD.
The T1100 PLUS is a later model of this laptop, released to the market in 1986. Some significant differences to the T1100 are: 16-bit data bus
80C86 CPU, 7.16 MHz or 4.77 MHz operation, 256 KB of conventional RAM (16-bit) extendable to 640 KB, and two internal 720 KB 3.5" diskette drives.
The T1100 was named an
IEEE Milestone in 2009.
Clones
Toshiba T1100 PLUS was cloned in the USSR as ''
Electronika MS 1504'' in 1991.
See also
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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 t ...
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Toshiba T1200
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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 time ...
*
Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), formerly known as Linux-8086, is a Linux-like operating system kernel. It is a subset of the Linux kernel, intended for ''16-bit'' computers with limited processor and memory resources such as machines ...
(ELKS formerly Linux-8086)
References
External links
* T1100 information a
minuszerodegrees.net* 360 degree view of T1100 a
Russian Vintage Laptop Museum* 360 degree view of T1100 PLUS a
Russian Vintage Laptop Museum
T1100
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