Monthly Archives: March 2021

Toshiba T4600 teardown and P30 error repair

My T4600 didn’t boot any more and just showed a P30 error on the small LCD.Fortunately this seems to be a known problem: a capacitor died and has to be replaced.But getting this thing apart and back together is a … Continue reading

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Toshiba T4600C 486 Laptop

Toshiba T4600C Year: 1990CPU: 486SL 33MhzRAM: 20MB (4MB + 16MB RAM card)Disk: 500MBFloppy: 1.44MB (broken)Ports: VGA, PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard, parallel, serial DB9, Dockingstation, 2x PCMCIA This laptop was a top-of-the-line business machine in 1990!It has 4MB RAM onboard and … Continue reading

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olivetti LSX 3010

olivetti LSX 3010 Year: 1988CPU: Motorola 68kDisks: 2x 60MBOS: X/OS System V Rel. 2 Ver. 2Ports: 1 Console Port, 3 Serial Concentrators with each 6 serial ports History of this olivetti LSX 3010 (serial 01 89 013486 A) The company … Continue reading

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olivetti M316 teardown

It’s always hard to take apart an unknown laptop. Here’s a teardown of the olivetti M316, so you don’t have to make the same mistakes as I did. 1. Remove the display sliders. They are just clipped on, carefully pull … Continue reading

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olivetti M316: 386 laptop

olivetti M316 Year: 1989CPU: Intel 80386 SXRAM: 1MBDisk: 40MBFloppy: 1.44MBOS: MSDOS 6.22Ports: serial, parallel, vga, mouse (PS/2), keyboard (mini-DIN?)Special: 1 ISA slot (Intel NIC)Screen: black & white I cannot even remember when and where I got this beautiful machine. It … Continue reading

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