Nice teardown as always. Interesting to know they used a 100 MHz DX4 with a lowered multiplicator of 3x to get 75 MHz to cope with heat. I have one in good shape too. The Utilities from the 50CT are running just fine. Mine came with a Toshiba upgraded 2 GB HDD with a Japanese Windows 95 copy, but it's not a factory installation.
When removing the hard drive and replacing it with a CF memory card, normally the win95 version is saved on the hard drive? have you already saved a version of win 95 on the compact flash card?
Yes, I format the CF card and make it bootable, either in another DOS machine or with Rufus, and then make a folder and copy the contents of a Windows 95/98 CD to it. You can then start the setup wizard from that folder when you boot the libretto, it doesn't have to be run off separate install media
Yeah, the BIOS is pretty basic and no setting there, nothing in the hwsetup app either. I'm just using the stock windows hard drive controller drivers, your best chance is to get the official 110CT IDE drivers, I kind of recall some kind of optimized drivers are available
@@spartanwarrior9755 I believe it should be fine on either a CF card or real HDD. The best place to check is archive.org, go to the software section and search for libretto 110ct (thought 100ct should work) and there a few recovery disks / driver sets
I think options are probably pretty limited, there is way to connect an SNES controller to a parallel port, but that's more for Windows, not sure if there are dos drivers. There is a PC card but I think it's pretty rare. Otherwise USB perhaps, the 100ct and newer one at least via the dock, or there are USB pc cards, but again maybe will have issues with DOS
There are some low-height caddy designs available for 3d printing, what do you mean when you say there are no caddies specific to the libretto available?. I'm considering making some 8mm height CF adapters available so that less librettos have to be disassembled
I'd be curious if you have a thingiverse ID or similar to check, I haven't looked recently but I've been using those two fine in most other laptops. The liberettos seem to be a very tight fit, and I think with the IDE connector slightly off there is no room to adjust. If I recall I think the 50-70ct are a little better, but then the 100/110ct were tight again. Those caddies could probably be made thinner to help, or card moved slightly
Nice teardown as always. Interesting to know they used a 100 MHz DX4 with a lowered multiplicator of 3x to get 75 MHz to cope with heat. I have one in good shape too. The Utilities from the 50CT are running just fine. Mine came with a Toshiba upgraded 2 GB HDD with a Japanese Windows 95 copy, but it's not a factory installation.
Cool rare retro laptop
When removing the hard drive and replacing it with a CF memory card, normally the win95 version is saved on the hard drive? have you already saved a version of win 95 on the compact flash card?
Yes, I format the CF card and make it bootable, either in another DOS machine or with Rufus, and then make a folder and copy the contents of a Windows 95/98 CD to it. You can then start the setup wizard from that folder when you boot the libretto, it doesn't have to be run off separate install media
I would love to get hold of a game joystick port PC card for my Toshiba Libretto 50CT. Plays 90's games great.
Hey, do you know if you can enable DMA mode on the 110ct. I'm on Windows 98 se and can't find it under device manager or in the bios.
Yeah, the BIOS is pretty basic and no setting there, nothing in the hwsetup app either. I'm just using the stock windows hard drive controller drivers, your best chance is to get the official 110CT IDE drivers, I kind of recall some kind of optimized drivers are available
@jasonnovak2121 I'm using a cf card adapter. Would these drivers still work for it? Also, any idea where I can find these drivers?
@@spartanwarrior9755 I believe it should be fine on either a CF card or real HDD. The best place to check is archive.org, go to the software section and search for libretto 110ct (thought 100ct should work) and there a few recovery disks / driver sets
Just wondering if you have seen any serial port based joysticks or even parallel port type?
I think options are probably pretty limited, there is way to connect an SNES controller to a parallel port, but that's more for Windows, not sure if there are dos drivers. There is a PC card but I think it's pretty rare. Otherwise USB perhaps, the 100ct and newer one at least via the dock, or there are USB pc cards, but again maybe will have issues with DOS
There are some low-height caddy designs available for 3d printing, what do you mean when you say there are no caddies specific to the libretto available?. I'm considering making some 8mm height CF adapters available so that less librettos have to be disassembled
I'd be curious if you have a thingiverse ID or similar to check, I haven't looked recently but I've been using those two fine in most other laptops. The liberettos seem to be a very tight fit, and I think with the IDE connector slightly off there is no room to adjust. If I recall I think the 50-70ct are a little better, but then the 100/110ct were tight again. Those caddies could probably be made thinner to help, or card moved slightly
Nice pocket PC