ABOUT:For your consideration is a mid 90's top-tier Toshiba laptop with optional CD drive, offered for a retro enthusiast to restore or scavenge parts from. This unit has NO hard drive or modular floppy drive, but does have RAM, CD drive, power cord, and a overall clean chassis ready for restoration!
Please remember that, while I am a retro tech enthusiast, I am not an expert on the specifics of any given piece of retro technology. Some small components may be missing that I am not familiar with, so please ask any questions BEFORE offerding. This is a piece of 1990's technology that is incomplete, and offerding on it constitutes an interest to tinker with the understanding of potential unexpected hurdles common to retro Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT• Pentium CPU• 16 MB RAM installed• CD-ROM in swappable bay• Hard Drive caddy is included (40-pin IDE interface is attached to the motherboard)• serial, parallel, onboard audio• Internal power supply functions, power cord included• Battery is included (but is vintage, so is sold as non-functional)
• Laptop has been tested to power on and boot into BIOS. The unit is designed to boot from floppy (which is not available), so no further tested was AND TESTING: Laptop is in aboveaverage condition for the age and has no cracks or serious yellowing of the plastics. Keyboard has a few partially worn-off keycaps but reasonably responsive for the age, trackpoint and soft-touch mouse buttons are a bit squishy from age but still very is a used,barebones, vintage laptop that is offered ASIS for enthusiastrebuild or collecting. It is not a modern computer and will require tinkering to findcompatiblecomponents. I am offering this unit to another enthusiast with theunderstanding that the buyer is willing toundertake responsibility for the many repair and maintenance variables that come with antique computer components including such delicate tasks as capacitor replacement.