The Toshiba T1200 is a discontinued laptop that was manufactured by the
Toshiba Corporation, first made in 1987. It is an upgraded version of the
Toshiba T1100 Plus.
It is equipped with an
Intel
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80C86 processor at of which 384 KB can be used for
LIM EMS or as a
RAMdisk,
CGA graphics card, one 720 KB 3.5"
floppy drive and one 20 MB hard drive (Some models had two floppy drives and no hard drive controller card.)
MS-DOS
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3.30 is included with the laptop. It is the first laptop with a swappable battery pack. Its original price was .
The T1200's hard drive has an unusual 26-pin interface made by JVC, incompatible with ST506/412 or ATA interfaces. Floppy drives are connected using similar 26-pin connectors.
The computer has many unique functions, such as Hard RAM - a small part of RAM is battery-backed and can be used as a non-volatile hard drive. Another function allows to suspend the system or power control the hard drive (which is still dependent on the hard disk's on/off switch).
The Toshiba T1200xe is an upgraded model of this laptop, which contained a 12 MHz 80C286 processor and a 20 or 40 MB hard disk drive. It also has 1 MB of RAM expandable to 5 MB. The floppy drive was also upgraded from 720 KB to 1.44 MB.
See also
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Toshiba T1100
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Toshiba T1000
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Toshiba T3100
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Toshiba T1000LE
References
External links
Computer Museum article on the Toshiba T1200
Products introduced in 1987
Computer-related introductions in 1987
IBM PC compatibles
T1200
Early laptops
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