Re: Toshiba T1910cs: How to open case?

On May 25, 6:00 am, "BillW50" <Bill...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

See:

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

Glad to see you again Will.

Hi Bill! I'm sorry to say I can't rightly remember who you are, my
memory is so poor these days, but it's sure nice to receive a such
friendly personal greeting!

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.

Aha! So my system boards are probably both fried then, eh?

I wonder if it's possible to track down the list of LED blink codes.
Each machine gives a different sequence of long and short blinks.

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.

OK, I'll give it a shot. I wonder where I could find one of those
special tools.

I guess the best thing to do, considering the fact that these machines
are self-basting ovens, would be to try to remove the hard drives and
install them in better designed laptops.

Fortunately I backed up all my data onto floppies (and tried to make
it a habit to back up all the software configuration files too, but
I'm not sure how diligent I actually was at that latter task. I did,
however, write some batch files that detected changes in the more
important config. files and then automatically back those up) so if
I'm not able to recover the software from the HDs I should be able to
pretty much reconstruct them.

I guess I'm going to be in the market for a "new" laptop. Over the
last decade or more I've become more and more disabled by chronic
pain, exhaustion, memory failure, etc. In a way I'm sort of like
those old Toshibas. About all I can do these days is emit blink codes
saying that I don't work all that well anymore. I'm no longer able
to sit up at my desktop computer for more than a few minutes at a
time, and I now spend an inordinate amount of time resting in bed, so
that's why I'd like to get a laptop computer up and running again: So
I can write while I'm lying in bed.

I'm trying to scrape by on a very small Social Security monthly
disability benefit, so a new laptop is out of my reach; it would take
my whole monthly check to buy one.

And, anyway, all I need is a computer capable of running old DOS
programs: MS-DOS 6.21, a simple text editor, DOSSHELL, XTree, some
batch files and misc. utilities. About the only requirement is that
it have a floppy drive. I find that playing around with DOS is really
a lot of fun, whereas trying to keep Windows software up and running
is a big headache for me, just one big messy can of worms that just
keeps getting messier and messier as the years go by.

So I guess I could post a plea here in this group for somebody's old
laptop, offering to pay shipping and packaging. I bet there's
somebody who reads this group who has an old 486 laptop (with a fan!)
collecting dust on a closet shelf or in a storage locker that they'd
be pleased to be rid of.

OK, I've prattled on long enough, haven't I?

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

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