#toshiba libretto

[kazyexe]

So I found this in a box of floppies I brought up last time I visited my childhood home. I spent the better part of 2 years looking for one of these, and ended up forgetting that my family had bought one in 1998 thinking it was a listing for the computer itself. Been sitting in a box ever since. So... now I have an extra one, if anyone is interested.

[exoflash]

saving for a gaming laptop and fighting back demons every time i see an interesting retro laptop on ebay

[fuckableobjects]

Fuckable Object #12 Toshiba Libretto 50CT (1996)

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[foone]

Late one morning, the chronomancer looks up from his reading, and quickly goes over to the bookshelf, and pulls out a Toshiba Libretto laptop. He logs onto Wumblr (wizard Tumblr), and selects his sideblog bad-ideas-for-magical-pistols.

New post. Text.

"gun of bottom surgery". Post.

He closes the browser, then waits for windows 95 to shutdown. He puts the laptop back on the dusty shelf, and sits back down at his desk, continuing his reading for the night.

[thinkpad-thursday]

It is now Toshiba Libretto Thursday

[legacydevice]

Toshiba Libretto U100

[missouri-and-woe]

i hope now that processors are more efficient and powerful and all that that we can bring back netbooks and subnetbooks i want a modern toshiba libretto

[56kilobits]

i have successfully restored my ebay "for parts" toshiba libretto 50ct with one weird trick: compact flash to ide adapter

well that's not explicitly true, it actually boots just fine (more on that later) but it boots into knoppix, and i wanted a full restore back to factory settings for the ~true experience~. also it's a original physical platter drive and those things aren't going to last much longer. so i found this 50ct/70ct restore image from archive.org (shoutout to homie retronicko), mounted it to a cf card i had laying around, and plugged it into this thing, and swapped out the old 815mb ide drive

you'll see here why it was marked as "for parts". this is silly and easily fixable but this computer illiterate ebay seller's loss is my gain

f1 takes us to the cute little bios, showing off the whopping 32mb of ram. waow

simple process of registering a user and punching in a win95 product key i found on google and we're in

a delightful teal green for a job well done

[maverickuk]

Valve's Steam machines may have been a damp squib, but part of that idea was finally realised and then some when the Steam Deck came to be.

I'm posting this from my summer holiday which is when I typically take my Toshiba Libretto 100CT away with me to play through a classic retro game for the first time or perhaps just to revisit an old favourate.

However when I was packing this year I decided to leave it at home so that I'd be able to dedicate more time to my Steam Deck.

It's such a wonderful little device that is capable of playing a solid set of Steam's catalog of games.

This holiday I've been revisiting Bend Studio originally criminally overlooked classic Days Gone.

Unfortunately it launched in a sorry state that stirred up a hornets nest of angry reviews from the critics which in turn lead to consumers staying over. However after a series of patches this rough diamond polished up into something very special.

I originally had a great time playing it through on my PS4, but I was more than happy to pay for the pleasure of being able to enjoy this classic on the road.

Although it has made me consider upgrading my Steam Deck from it's base 64GB eMMC configuration to a much faster and larger NVMe drive. But that's for another post...

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

I had a very... strange dream.

We were having a family dinner, except it was on a deserted carribbean island, in a totally ruined Spanish fort.

Hitler was there, and I think Goebbels was too.

We kept telling him about modern technology just to see his reaction.

I specifically remember telling him about the Toshiba Libretto, a little tiny palm-top computer from the 90s-00s. When I was describing it, I called the thumb mouse you used for navigating a "nipple" and he got very angry at me.

Then my dad said something, and he got even angrier, and ran away and started hiding behind the rubble of the ruined fort.

[winari2]

FDD testing - TOSHIBA Libretto 70CT

[kazyexe]

After like 2 hours of troubleshooting, I finally have internet on my Libretto! #toshibalibretto #Windows98 #retrocomputing https://instagr.am/p/CabqTLUONCa/

[machetelanding]

Toshiba Libretto 50CT

[mxargent]

The littlest p120.

[swarmik]

Small portables: Libretto and PSION 5MX

These tiny machines were something I dreamed of during my childhood. I got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto much later. It was maybe 10 years ago when I needed to read diagnostic data from my old car (a Skoda Octavia I 1.6MPI with an automatic transmission – not having a manual transmission was considered heresy even back then in Czech Republic and I always enjoyed being weird). A friend of mine lent me the original diagnostic device together with this small laptop. I immediately fell in love with it. A few years after that I received another one from another friend of mine and I still use it as a bridge between new and old computers (thanks to its serial port and an PCMCIA SD-card reader).

The PSION Series 5MX is a different story. I had it (rebranded from Ericsson) and used it to make notes during my university years. I remember that I read the whole 500-page USB 2.0 specification on its (sometimes hard to read) display. I sold it after I switched to an HP Jornada handheld with Windows CE – it had shorter battery runtime but offered a better display and surprisingly better keyboard.

Although both are small devices, their target use case was always totally different. One was an exceptional device for taking quick notes, the other one was not so good for text input but offered ability to run full-blown PC software… and that was a big thing back then.

If you want to better understand the internal architecture of the Toshiba Libretto 70CT, check the full article here on retro.swarm.cz.

[legacydevice]

Toshiba Libretto 50CT