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ever released up to that point, and the press considered it the<br />
MacBook Air of its day.<br />
Like the MacBook Air, the T1000 shipped with a solid-state disk:<br />
It packed MS-DOS 2.11 on a built-in ROM chip so it would be available<br />
instantly when powered on. For $549 more, you could increase the<br />
RAM to 768K, and use a portion of that memory as an ultra-fast<br />
RAM disk that retained its data as long as the main system battery<br />
didn’t discharge.<br />
My dad apparently bought that 768K option when he got his T1000<br />
around 1989, because I just ran across it today. It’s a tiny board plastered<br />
with RAM chips plugged into the motherboard. Here’s how it looked:<br />
I took apart the T1000 because it doesn’t boot anymore. It has seen<br />
better days. The plastic has yellowed, and there’s unidentified gunk<br />
on the lid.<br />
This Toshiba<br />
T1000 had a<br />
rebuilt Ni-Cd<br />
battery pack<br />
(thank you<br />
Radio Shack!)<br />
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