#t1910cs

[commodorez]

Z and the jank-ass hot air rework station

And it worked. I was able to desolder a connector for a plastic ribbon cable and add my own bodge wires to it.

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Progress!

Then a road block...  hard drives aren’t being recognized by the BIOS.  Time to break out the spare motherboard!

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Copying files via serial at 19200 baud from Vega to the Satellite T1910CS. 

The T1910CS has been exceptionally finicky, even after the motherboard was replaced.  Somehow, Windows 95A is booting now but I’m not sure what exactly changed that facilitated it being functional.  I still need to hop into the BIOS and switch the port to bidirectional operation to make the external Backpack parallel port floppy drive work correctly.

This is the first time in forever that I’ve actually used Windows 95 on a 486 (the 486SX variant to be specific), and holy Ballmer’s cuball is it fucktastically slow.

Meanwhile, the Satellite P25 plays a theme song for this event.

[commodorez]

Installing Windows 95 RTM onto my Libretto 70CT, on a hard drive that will be moved to my red Satellite T1910CS, due to its lack of functional floppy drive.  This is the original version of 95, served up on 13 floppy disks formatted in Microsoft’s proprietary Distribution Media Format.  DMF allows you to cram 1.7MB worth of data onto 3½” floppies, instead of the more typical 1.44MB.

Oh, and this is all the while Vega helps supplement my corrupted disks (because I know I have a few that haven’t survived the last 22 years intact). 

And my Satellite P25 is playing Subspace Continuum on T3 The Gauntlet! waiting for someone to come along and play...  but more on that later.

All while I eat a vegi-dog with banana ketchup.

[commodorez]

Great collection you have. I was particually looking the Toshiba T1910c project. I have a torn floppy cable in my 1900c :(. I was wonfering is there a substitute or replacement part for it? Is it called pj202 fdd cable? Thanks for the help. Pete.

The connector is marked as PJ202 on the board, but the cable itself doesn’t have any designation that I can find beyond “FDD cable”.

I honestly don’t know about a source or a replacement...   my solution to the problem was tracking down replacements by way of damaged machines that have been written off as parts.  I did find one complete replacement floppy drive and cable combo, but I have yet to find the part number associated with it.

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Remember my Toshiba Satellite T1910CS-200?  Well, I gave it a bit of a paint job before VCF East XI, along with a few stickers I had been stockpiling.

My initial plan was to use this to store programs for Hero Jr. as plaintext, then transfer them over in terminal mode.  I’m not sure why, but I was getting dropped characters in serial port tests the week before, and I decided to give up on it, and maybe reassemble it during a spare moment in my hotel room before the event.  I did finish putting it back together on Friday night of VCF East, but ended up not messing with it any further.  It still needs some work, namely a replacement laminated floppy drive ribbon cable, and a proper switch to the CF card hard drive adapter replacement.   Not to mention a new battery would be very nice. 

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Well, I think I may have damaged another floppy drive thin ribbon cable for my T1910CS. 

I’ve tried 2 different floppy drives, two different motherboards, and the one cable I have is proving is the only common factor.  Each test has yielded the same result: a steady buzzing noise that wasn’t there before upon loading in a floppy.  I’ve tried a half-dozen different floppies too...