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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: 1) by nostyle on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:54AM
The libretto was a rather nice piece of kit. I bought two when they were dumping them (the earliest version) for around $500 around '97. It had no fan, so the only sound it made was the nearly inaudible whir and click of the hard drive. IIRC it came with W95, so I set up one to dual boot with Slackware, then later managed to get WinNT to run on the other one. It was great to have these little critters to do multi-platform tests on. Then my wife started a business, and the NT unit became her partner's PC with a full-size keyboard and video display hanging off of it, while the Slackware unit served as the business' print/file/db server and firewall. Fast forward a few years (the partner was gone), and the NT unit got a fresh install of openBSD and served as our home NAT/firewall until about 2010. The only maintenance I ever did was an upgrade of the hard drives early on. When operating as firewalls, the units were on 24/7 with typical uptimes measured in years.
Nowadays, between USB, HDMI, WIFI, Bluetooth, ... etc., the librettos are simply unsuited to the current computing environment, and I sent them to the recycle a few years back. They have been replaced by a pair of fanless low-end ARM chromebooks - one running the original OS (our "guest" laptop), and one with a Slackware install where I do all my LaTeX projects.