"Cursed" Toshiba 486 DX2/50 laptop, TFT Screen 24MB ram, 1.4G hard disk

[Osgeld]

For sale a "cursed" Toshiba Satellite Pro  T2400CT. 486DX2/50Mhz, 24Mb ram, 1.4GB hard disk 

I originally probably paid too much for this machine on ebay seeing that its a 486DX2, has a TFT screen and an optional sound card... sweet good DOS gaming rig in a small form 

 

What makes it cursed?

1. To even enter the guts of the machine requires the fiddling of a billion darn near 30 year old clips
2. To replace the hard drive take point 1 and then remove a daughter board containing another dozen or so screws to remove the keyboard, mouse and PCMCIA connectors 
3. The floppy disk drive is belt driven and was broken
4. The CMOS battery is some screwball rechargeable lithium battery that is near impossible to replace 
5. The screen displays artifacts in any resolution other than 640x480 *see last image
6. The optional sound card is only available on machines that included it originally ... in 3 years of owning it I have seen one complete machine on ebay and it sold for like way too much 
7. Its missing one PCMCIA slot cover
8. While it will accept PCMCIA flash drives (like a CF card stuck in an adapter) it only works on the right side slot and can not boot from it 
9. Battery terminal is completely corroded and eaten away on key pins
10. its extremely picky about what hard disk is installed 

 

Whats been done...

1. Hard drive was upgraded from 250MB to 1.4GB
2. Considering the 250MB hard drive was crashed I reinstalled MS-Dos and Windows 3.11 along with any drivers I can find, windows video drivers, card bus drivers, sound drivers 
3. Replaced belt on floppy drive to find out it was still dead, found (and paid for) another floppy drive replaced its belt... it seems to be working fine 
4. Removed all 3 batteries (main, cmos and sleep) 
5. Gave it a good cleaning 

 

So after spending way too much time and money on this thing what you get is a 486 laptop with a OK screen (its an early TFT so its not like your modern TV in terms of brightness or viewing angles, but its not a DSTN screen that looks like a gameboy!) that displays artifacts in most DOS games, that you may or may not notice, you have to run and accept default bios settings if unplugged, a floppy drive that seems to work right now, and only produces bleeps and bloops for sound.

 

50 bucks + shipping, get it the hell out of my house, USA only please unless you really REALLY, REALLY want to pay for international postage 

 

PS comes with original power supply 

 

 

 

Edited September 7 by Osgeld

[eightbit]

Sounds like you have to launch this Satellite into interplanetary space!