After getting back from the computer recyclers today, I found the mailman had delivered this:
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Toshiba T2100 laptop. It was apparently used to control a CNC machine, the program is still on the drive. In fact, aside from DOS and a mouse driver, the CNC program is the ONLY thing on the drive.
Now, if you've seen my past posts in this thread, you might remember that a month or so ago I had received another T2100, one that was significantly different from this one.
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The older T2100 has an 8086 8MHz CPU, 640K RAM and a 10MB hard drive. It was released in 1986.
The newer T2100 has a 486DX2-50MHz CPU, 20MB RAM (Originally had 4MB according to Google) and a 260MB hard drive. It was released in 1995.
Nine years separate these two computers, yet they both have the same model numbers. How can this be? Well, the best I can determine from Google searches is that the older T2100 was only available in Europe and also possibly Australia, and was never released in the US. When the newer laptop was released in the US, I presume they simply recycled the unused T2100 model number. I do not know what the European equivalent of the "new" T2100 was, assuming an identical model was even released in Europe that is.