The Toshiba T1100 is a

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manufactured by

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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

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desktop, using

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s (it had no

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), a 4.77 MHz

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80C88 CPU (a lower-power variation of the

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), 256 KB of conventional

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extendable to 512 KB, and a monochrome LCD capable of displaying 80x25 text and 640x200 CGA graphics. Its original price was . The T1100 PLUS is a later model of this laptop, released to the market in 1986. Some significant differences to the T1100 are:

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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

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as '' Electronika MS 1504'' in 1991.

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
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Clones

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