Re: Toshiba T1910cs: How to open case?

On May 25, 6:00 am, "BillW50" <Bill...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Innews:48389d0f$0$7046$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Barry Watzman typed on Sat, 24 May 2008 18:56:04 -0400:



Clueless in Seattle wrote:
I've got a couple of old (antique?) Toshiba T1910CS laptops that were
given to me years ago by a generous contributor to this newsgroup
(with whom I've unfortuately lost contact because all my email from
those days is stuck on a now defunct computer).

These laptops have been in storage for a number of years and I just
recently unearthed them and would like to try to get them up and
running again because I think they would make great writing machines.
I used to run a DOS based text editor on them and miss the simplicity
and elegance of that old fashioned text based software.

Neither of the laptops will boot anymore, but they do give me
blinking LED codes, (which I don't know how to interpret).

I'd like to pop open the case and check the CMOS battery but don't
have a clue how to get in. Are there any old timers like me in this
newsgroup who could help me figure out how to get inside these little
beasts?

Also, it would be great if I could find a list of the blink codes for
these machines so I could understand what they are trying to tell me.

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"

Those are SO old that they really are not good for ANYTHING. That is
a 386SX CPU with a horrible screen to boot. Not a Pentium, not a
486, it doesn't even have a math coprocessor. Really not worth
fooling with.

See:

http://home.att.net/~ronkar/toshiba.html

Glad to see you again Will. They are 486 laptops without a fan. Which is
why it is like impossible to find a working one anymore. Mine lasted 5
years and cooked itself to death. As the entire lower system board will
fail. You can get the laptop apart by the seam at the edge and usually
requires a special tool owned by Toshiba. But if you are careful, you
can get it apart.

--
Bill

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