This Does Not Compute | Libretto 50CT: The Teeny Tiny Toshiba @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
Subnotebooks were designed with portability in mind, and sometimes came with compromises...but this Toshiba from 1997 took things to a whole new level.
Sources:
Hard drive photo: ifixit.com/Teardown/Toshiba+Libretto+50CT+Teardown/2090
Popular Science, September 1997.
InfoWorld, August 25, 1997.
Maximum PC, June 1999.
Libretto battery and docking station photos: http://laptop.pics/toshiba-libretto-70ct
Enhanced docking station photos: computermuseum.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/libretto-50ct
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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).
Subnotebooks were designed with portability in mind, and sometimes came with compromises...but this Toshiba from 1997 took things to a whole new level.
Sources:
Hard drive photo: ifixit.com/Teardown/Toshiba+Libretto+50CT+Teardown/2090
Popular Science, September 1997.
InfoWorld, August 25, 1997.
Maximum PC, June 1999.
Libretto battery and docking station photos: http://laptop.pics/toshiba-libretto-70ct
Enhanced docking station photos: computermuseum.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/libretto-50ct
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Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute
Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp
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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).