The Toshiba Tecra (dynabook TECRA in Japan) is series of business laptops manufactured by Toshiba. The Tecra series includes four notebook models. This model, the Toshiba Tecra 730CDT was a great portable system for its time in 1996.
My interest in this particular model is for a computer that runs natively with Windows 95 and MS-DOS. Also a 9-Pin Serial (16550 UART compliant) and 25-Pin Parallel (8 bit ECP) port are necessary for my needs.
This laptop was purchased on eBay and it came with a copy of Widows 95 installed, but I decided I would start with a fresh install and load Windows 98 instead. By doing this, I was able to avoid reinstalling sound and other drivers (here is the official Toshiba site where the drivers for this model can be found http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=1073769796 ) All the necessary drivers for this computer were loaded automatically by Windows 98 SE.
Here are the basic specs:
Processor: Pentium 150 MHz
Installed Memory: 16 MB (EDO RAM) This unit has 48 MB!
Hard Drive: 2.1 GB IDE
Display: 12.1 in. TFT Active Matrix
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 95
Motherboard Bus Speed: 60 MHz
Memory: Installed RAM 16 MB
RAM Technology EDO RAM
Max Supported RAM 144 MB
Installed Cache Memory 256 KB
Hard Drive Capacity 2.1 GB
Display Color Support 16-bit (64K colors)
Display Max. Resolution 1024 x 768
Video: Installed Video Memory 2 MB
Manufacturer: Toshiba
Date: 1996
Here's an advertisement from a 1997 copy of PC World:
Quite an expensive investment during the time. $5599.79 in today's dollar is $8203.77
I bought mine at a Comp-USA going-out-of-business sale (you can place the approximate time of my purchase by the historically significant closing of this chain store.). I paid twelve dollars for it.
ReplyDeleteWell.. at least we've seen a value increase. I got mine in 2015 for 30 USD!
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