First post, by kleung21
I took a chance and picked up a Toshiba portege 660cdt laptop from ebay - as is/untested. Worked perfectly after a bit of cleanup (cosmetic).
If anyone has manuals/drivers/further information on this laptop; please point it out to me. I know the drivers at least should still be on the Toshiba website.
There is very little information on this series; hardly any youtube videos so I'll make some comments here.
Pentium 150; 16mb ram; 1.3 gb hard drive. Lithium battery (main). Cmos/memory backup = NiMH rechargeable
- built in floppy uses a citizen drive with a selectbay connector. It didn't work for me as the belts on these things just die (same experience with the Compaq LTE line).
- managed to swap in a newer toshiba floppy drive but they are thicker/bigger so needed to dremel out the holder to fit
REMOVE THE CMOS BATTTERIES ASAP if you get one of these laptops working. I almost didnt' bother to check (out of laziness) but on disassembly; I could tell they had already been leaking. A tiny bit had tracked along the wires to the motherboard but luckily; hadn't damaged anything yet.
I had an extra EDO sodimm I was able to install so the memory is now 16 mb base +32 sodimm == 48 mb.
Planning to install windows 95 on this machine. Although 98 MIGHT work on 48mb ram without patches.
Great little system though. The plastic has gotten brittle though .