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on Tuesday August 11 2020, @02:13AM
from the to-shiba-or-not-to-shiba?-now-we-know dept.
from the to-shiba-or-not-to-shiba?-now-we-know dept.
BBC:
The Japanese giant Toshiba has sold its final stake in the personal computer maker Dynabook.
It means the firm no longer has a connection with making PCs or laptops.
Sharp bought 80% of Toshiba's personal computing arm in 2018 for $36m (£27m), and has now bought the remaining shares, Toshiba said in a statement.
Toshiba's first laptop, the T1100, launched in 1985. It weighed 4kg (8.8 pounds) and worked with 3.5 inch (8.8cm) floppy disks.
How much will Toshiba's departure from the laptop market be mourned?
Additional Coverage:
Toshiba is officially out of the laptop business
Goodbye Toshiba Laptops. It's Been Good Knowing Ya
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(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:09AM (3 children)
My very first x86 computer was a Toshiba Satellite Pro 405cs with a Pentium 1@75Mhz, 40MB of RAM, and a 750MB hard disk. I got it at a Savers thrift store for $15 when I was 12, and it came with Windows 95, though it clearly shipped with Windows 3.1. This was around 2006-2007, so it was already hopelessly dated by that point.
I still have that machine, it's covered in black duct tape for "protection" (genius 13 year old me), and runs a custom 2014 Linux distro I compiled by hand from source tarballs.
I love that machine, always have, simply because of the nostalgia. Never tried any serious programming on it, and due to its lack of USB, my childhood poverty, and the kernel drivers for its PCMCIA controller being removed from the source tree, has *never* been on the internet at any point in time.
The original battery still holds a good bit of a charge after all these years.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:08AM (1 child)
Your sig made me chuckle.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Subsentient on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:28AM
"Enlightenment cannot be attained until the fourth eye is wide open" -Goa Tse
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:26PM
My first computer was a well used and abused laptop i bought from a liquor drunk co worker for $100. He used to accidentally step on it and spill whiskey on it. Luckily he was a very emaciated man so did not completely smush it. That laptop lasted many years through all kinds of trials and tribulations. I was so impressed when i saved up enough money i bought another toshiba and it was very well built as well. It went to a relative for a few years after i got done with it and then i sold it on ebay to another person who paid good money for it, because they had the same laptop and wanted another one because theirs was so good. After that, quality started slipping until the last few years the ones i saw were pretty shittastic.