it's not all that often that I buy something "as a collector" but I found this T1100 Plus and got it for a song, complete with the original branded carrying case, and that's pretty cool if you ask me. The T1100 is incredibly important to the history of the PC, the first commercially successful PC laptop, and arguably they got everything right on the first try. works, too.
things are going well, but I am now involved in a bug thread on GitHub. you see, linux won't boot
update; the developer of the 8088 linux project (ELKS) has sent me a patched binary to try, since he thinks the toshiba has an unusual bios that doesn't implement the FDD calls as expected. however, i can't test it yet because i've been testing the battery life and it's at 2 hours and counting and i have no idea when it's going to run out of juice
trip report:
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the battery finally conked out at 3 hours. fuck off
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also, i had rebooted off the floppy several times near the end of the test period, distorting the results; if i hadn't done that, it may have gotten more like 3.5-4 hours. fuck off!
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also, i forgot to clock the CPU down. it was running at double speed. if i'd set it to 4.77mhz, it may have gotten the original eight! hour! battery life. fuck off
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anyway, here it is running linux. (shout out to gregory haerr for making a custom build of ELKS patched specifically to boot on my machine, which apparently is so old that it lacks the PC BIOS FDD discovery system call)

