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FEATURES<br />
THIS OLD TECH<br />
After a few years’ service as a personal machine for my family, this<br />
T1000 began its second life as a glorified serial terminal at my dad’s<br />
electronics company, where it was hooked to some sort of test<br />
machine for the next decade.<br />
After his company retired the T1000, I rescued it and added it to<br />
my collection.<br />
My dad passed away in 2013, so I can’t ask him for more specific<br />
details about the history of the machine. But it’s amazing how the<br />
stuff he touched and used provides tangible links to him in ways I<br />
don’t expect.<br />
AN ASSIST FROM RADIO SHACK<br />
For example, upon disassembling the T1000 today, I found out that at<br />
some point the unit’s internal Ni-Cd battery pack had been rebuilt—<br />
Luckily the<br />
Toshiba T1000<br />
has a composite<br />
video output,<br />
so when its<br />
own display<br />
didn’t work, an<br />
old Apple IIc<br />
monitor could<br />
be called into<br />
service.<br />
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