Overclocking the smallest laptop of the 90s'! - Toshiba Libretto 50ct | A-aron
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- I overclock the smallest laptop of the 1990s!
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Long videos about retro tech are my favourite type of videos!
The good old times.
Retro is 🔥!!!
love videos like this as i myself go crazy on old tech
i came for the overclocking of an obscure 90s system, but stayed for the cat content
She’s the star really
As a poor teen I a major wish to own one of these.
😢same man
Pretty cool piece of kit, congrats on the 100 subscribers!
Thanks! It’s a start.
nice! more likes than subs. channel deserves more attention.
i over clocked my 100ct back in the day, it made a huge difference. i dont remember it negitively affecting the battery life if any at all.
Nice video!
To make the mod reversible, it’s also possible to simply unsolder and lift pin 15 of the W48C54A chip.
Also if you use a diode between the CPU and the NEC chip instead of just a wire, you can switch between 100 and 133 MHz at startup. As you indicated, 133 MHz is still a bit too hot for a P75 and lead to some instability.
Super Video :-)
I was just thinking about that, recently. I had one when it was fairly new, and immediately overclocked it. The mouse nub with the keys on the back was really comfortable to use. Fit in a jacket pocket. Battery life wasn't great, so I often carried a camcorder battery. Big fun!
one slash away from greatness then the workaround gets foiled by plug and play good times
That was good to watch! Keep it up, I hope to see more of you in the future!
Remember to back up your hard disk on these old machines! Especially before doing big things.
Right, I say we collaborate and get that 166mhz stable/custom cooling with better speakers and a custom LED backlight instead of CCFL!
I love compact tiny things.
That's awesome man. I have a Panasonic CF-M32. Look that up - It's as big as a CD Jewel Case.
Nice video! Hope to see more from you :)
Tip on batteries (Look up Battery University for information), 3.6v is the Lithium Ion nominal voltage of the chemistry that charges peak 4.2 (4.225 just before lithium plates), the cells in common circulation these days are 3.7 nominal and also sometimes 3.8v (peak 4.3 and 4.45 peak cut off voltages respective).
Always go for cells that have the same or higher cut off voltage for safety.
Those old Sony cells probably plated out lithium, if you carefully charged them to 4.1v and then put them into one of those incineration fire-bins away from anything you don't want to damage (including yourself: step well back), I've had a set I burned and had an orange/red like firework show out of them (Though I'm sure there's more responsible ways to recycle, but this at least uses up the chemistry and makes them relatively inert, just say to recycling, the laptop survived these batteries, they've completely burnt out). Also, don't breathe fumes from the fire of course.
As for the clock, I'd of maybe made up an arduino sketch that would manipulate the pins so I could gain higher clock speeds in realtime and to help with cooling, I'd of covered the keyboard back with a thin copper sheet, and a layer of graphite thermal spreading sheeting, remade most of the heatsink with copper shims and plates soldered together and maybe tried to fit a heatpipe in there to maximize the keyboard for cooling, though I may also of tried to make and line up holes to allow air convection through the keyboard. This would to have maximum frequency for longer (Basically the Arduino would do double duty as the old "turbo" button, essentially emulating Intel SpeedStep but by FSB instead of multiplier)
I'd love to get my hands on one of these ultra-portable MSDOS machines for these mods. I'm just slightly jealous you got one of those and I not found one for reasonable amounts yet...
That isn't an msdos machine really, the keyboard is rather difficult to use, I had one back in the day. You'd want an HP for that, but I won't tell you which because this kind of modding is destructive and stupid, they are quite at the edge of what their build can handle as delivered. It's sad to see people destroying these things on purpose for me, they were quite rare back in the day and are iconic machines today if working, like this one was before this guy got his hands on it. Rebuilding the battery is fine, breaking it on purpose isn't, there are not that many left.
Love the ghetto videos man
I've got three of these. If I need to put programs on them I put the hard drive in an external ide box and usb it into a Windows ME laptop. Overclocking it? Don't want to break mine. Too irreplaceable. Good luck though.
I love Gateway hardware now. Didn't back in the day. It's strange how our preferences and tastes change over time. Nostalgia. Happy and exciting times.
BTW that Toshiba laptop is a great gaming laptop with that Nvidia card in it for older games.
Something I do with old stuff is once I make a Windows install that I really like, I make an image of it and make sure to have spare media with which to 'burn' it on.
I have 2 50cts with damaged LCDs....... They were so cheap though so I can't complain too much.
Also for old laptops it wouldn't hurt to find a Windows 7 era laptop with a PCMICA slot. They work nicely as an in between computer.
Get a business grade one and you can even have such starkly differing ports like USB 3 and Parallel in the same docking station.
Very nice video, your are a very charismatic and natural person. Any plans to do more related retrocomputing stuff?
I do! If vintage Macintosh stuff interests you in any way I already have a video about a Macintosh Classic II. Currently I'm working on a video for another Macintosh, a PowerBook 180c, and I have a 2nd part of the Classic II video that is down the road.
I completely agree. He is persistent and so positive even in the face of so much continual aggregation. And, best of all he showed the bad bits, didn't cut it. A real person.
CAT! 6:20
You can get a PCmcia to cf adapter, and then a sd to cf adapter , to easily transfer files to and from the device. Then you'll have a hot swappable fat formatted sd card. This is how my Thinkpad works. You can also get a Cisco aironet adapter for wifi purposes, to get networking going. Because the windows file sharing is so old, using ftp is probably a better option then smb or trying to browse the web. And if you use daemon tools 3.47, you don't need a real CD drive to get CD support and CD audio ; you can use CD images stored on the SD card, at least within windows.
OC'd an ff1100v and an SS1000 now. Never messed with the grey units tho as they basically just crumble to bits when u try to open them. The most noticeable OC was going from 166mhz to 233 on my SS1000. Things ran a lot smoother, Windows 98SE ran like a dream on that with 64MB ram and 8gig CF card
"DUDE! Your getting a Gateway!"
Cooll ! 👍
i have seen this laptop so close in the past if i'm correct but i dont if its toshiba brand and windows 98
It’s a Libretto 50ct, originally it ran Windows 95 but I put Windows 98 on it.
Plug the 2 DC input pins into a 240V electrical outlet.
Oh hell yeah dude
BOOM!
heheh, good stuff, I had a sony vaio that was a bit bigger but still insanely tiny compared to even today's lightest offerings (had a portable serial connected cd and floppy drive too that was this awful purple color like the battery haha)
But you gotta know, you said "pin 15" multiple times... And I'm apparently still a man with humor from elementary years, because I knew what you were saying but I just kept seeing it in my head as when you write P E N 1 5 on paper. Goodayyy mate!
your router is almost so old like the Libretto 😀😀
I would skip the skip on the music for your next video. I have a CT-50 and it still works with Win95. Thanks
One of the most pirated windows 98 license codes to exist....
all those white capacitors are the type which will leak and destroy the board... replace them before it is too late! Similar type in sega game gears.... Tantalum is recommended IMHO.
I have a liberatto 50ct. wish I had the floppy drive for it. regardless min works good. have not used it in monthis. But I have a plan for it and a number of things. whenthe time is right.
It’s “format c: /u” after fdisk.
You were using ALL the wrong sized tools for this job...
same
Are you interested in the HP Firebird systems?
Looks like it's been over a year since you upgraded the battery. How's it behaving?
Hi, thanks for following up! The battery is holding up great! I don't play with the machine a lot but when I play games on it I get over an hour before it dies. That's about the same as it was doing when I built it.
Sound is 2.5mm, just build an adapter. If I recall correctly it just does PC speaker in mono though, but it's been a while... to put it mildly. I might still have stuff for mine somewhere but I don't remember where if so, I do think I saw some of it like 5 yrs ago or so. Sound isn't worth making the adapter for it.
Edit: Ehm, please do not do what this guy did, use real tools if you absolutely have to, not things for farm equipment repair like in this video.
Farm equipment repair?
the command your looking for is format C: /S
Now that it's been semi-overclocked... will you try installing a later OS, like Windows 2000, Windows ME? or perhaps go as far as to install Windows XP?
It would be neat to try XP, it would barely run with the 32mb of ram on the system.
@@a-aron5691 Well there is a slimmed down version of Windows XP, called MicroXP... I believe it will work with 32mb of ram. (It's unofficial and hard to find, and the copy I use I've found on Internet Archive.)
Or if you wanna get really crazy, try putting ReactOS on it.
HEY!!
Here is how to break / damage poor old stuff
Wow, that was really painful,, please don't do that again.
Imma do it again
O boy newer play with old stuff if you cannot install old OS, First you need to type D: or oder letter depends on bios but D: most often work then type CD and then install Win 98 or Win 98SE to start installing OS.
Well. Rebuilding modern notebook battery pack this way will lead you to disabled battery. it wont charge so its basically dead. You just got lucky this time.
format c: /q /s
needs new speakers
Yeah, good luck finding one though. They’re unobtainium
i don't think format.exe/com was on that a drive... but always better to have windows do formatting so it gets what it wants
I managed to run alpine linux (with a striped down kernel to fit the ram and no initrd) on a 120mhz pentium (non mmx) and 24 mb of ram (the board supports 128 mb just fine, i just dont have it). have not got a gui working on it (were talking modern linux with an ancient gpu), but its probably a good thing as it'd prob just run out of memory lol.