[geeks] VRE01/VT1200 pictures

[Kris Kirby]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> I once had a Toshiba T3200-something (386sx-16) "portable" with a plasma
> display. "portable" in that sense that you could unplug the powercord
> from the machine and throw it in a bag. (well, LIFT it in a bag)

Hrm. My friend David Kelly has one of these, IIRC. It's the machine that
introduced me to network installs of FreeBSD. He's the one that got me
into this thing called "UNIX" that took over my life.

> Horrible performance, even slower than most 286's out there. Two
> ISA-slots, standard 3.5" IDE-drive (which ofcourse was locked in BIOS to
> handle 40, 80 and 120MB disks, nothing else), 3.5" floppy, nice keyboard
> and this absolutely awesome plasma display. I mean, I wouldn't have
> traded this plasma for ANY LCD by that time. Nice orange two-colored
> display. Well, actually three.. black, darker orange and lighter orange.
> It was fun playing Leisure Suit Larry or Space Quest on this one. :-)
> I had a modem in this baby, internal ISA. Did some BBS'ing, but then it
> just sat there collecting dust, until some weeks later when I sold it.

Had two ISA slots, right?

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