First post, by my03
Hi dear Vogoners,
i recently acquired a Toshiba Libretto CT110 and i love this little piece of hardware 😀 I got the docking station with it but unfortunately i did not get the floppy drive.
The drive was dead so i replaced it with a 2.5 CF adapter (as master) together with a 2GB card and after preparing the card with a bootable win98 and moving the 98 SE installation onto it, i now have a full installation. So far so good.
But my main question is really: Was the toshiba floppy/pcmcia combo really some OEM from somebody else? I have seen Sony units that looks very similar on Ebay, and other places. Would it be possible to use such units instead of the Toshiba branded ditos? (would it even boot from such a device??).
While looking for the floppy/pcmcia online i did notice that ppl want ridiculous amount of money for them (as much as the computer itself) which is of course funny. While i do manage to swap in files using the pcmcia slot (sd->pcmcia adapter), it surely would be nice to use the floppy from time to time, hence my asking this.
thx