Reply 520 of 28356, by torindkflt
I recently acquired a Toshiba T5200 portable from eBay, and today was spent opening it up to replace the dead CMOS battery and in anticipation of replacing the floppy drive (Due to arrive next week) because the current one has failed. I might also upgrade the 40MB hard drive to 100MB, but I haven't decided for sure yet. Of course, this is assuming I can even find a compatible drive that still works and is available at a reasonable price, my research suggests the T5200 literally only accepts two specific models of hard drive despite being standard IDE. Otherwise it still boots and runs, so I took the time to back up the hard drive in its current state to a Zip disk. Lastly, I connected the T5200 to my Toshiba T3100 portable with a null modem cable, and used the T5200 to back up the T3100's hard drive to Zip disk as well (The T3100 has a faulty parallel port and the Zip drive doesn't work on it). Looking forward to the day when I can have the T5200 fully reassembled and in proper working condition!
Now if only I could find a 2MB memory upgrade and a 20MB hard drive for the T3100 at reasonable cost, which I highly doubt will ever happen. Unlike the T3100e and the T3100SX, the base T3100 has 100% proprietary parts, so unfortunately I can't just slap in some 30pin SIMMs and a larger IDE hard drive and have it work. :p