Toshiba Satellite 310CDT Ultimate Retro Laptop

Welcome to this 1997 Toshiba Satellite 310CDT retro laptop. Picked it up for 10 EUR and I've really enjoyed using this little machine. Seems like an ideal retro laptop for running nineties games .... Let me know what you think !

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[trainingtheworld]

Hey mate, I fully recommend that you open this laptop and remove the clock battery immediately. I own one of these laptops and mine had a leaked battery which thankfully did not damage the motherboard. I would also recycle the lithium main battery, they are too dangerous to keep in your house. It’s just not worth it risk a fire.

[stevemorris]

Hi there just install nusb36e driver and it replaces the old win 98 USB mass storage driver and then you can use any old thumb drive or external USB HD, the driver is small enough to be installed by floppy drive. I have this exact laptop and the driver worked great

[yemarican]

My first laptop back in the early 90's ... it is indeed how I learned everything ... I give this laptop lots of credit because it was ahead of its time back then. Thank you for sharing.

[goncalodumas]

This Pentium MMX generation is the best one. The previous Pentium (gen 1) generation is plagued with battery corrosion issues and system complexity - disassembly is a nightmare and the clock battery was right on top of the motherboard. This one is easily disassembled, the clock battery is away from the motherboard and it's overall simple and functional.

[OmegaWolf]

I had laptops like this back in the day. Solid machines over all.

[djpirtu]

I have 320CDT! 96Mb RAM, 233MHz and 120Gb hard drive. Battery still works!

[MrToldi]

Nice find. Toshiba ruled back in the mid 90's with these laptops. The sound card in these is more than decent. I myself have the Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT - an older model despite the higher model number. Being only pôwered by an Intel P75 but comes also with the Yamaha OPL3 chip. Sadly it appears that some caps on the motherboard gave up the battle. The keyboard and nipple became very emotional & started having the life of their own.

[mikatorkkeli]

heh used to support those old toshibas back in the day, only thing that went wrong with that age of laptops where harddrive, ram or most likely os (user error) still have couple of them, tecra 750 dvd comes close to that with 233mmx. good machines :)

[olivierdebonne]

Nice find, I also love old Toshiba’s (owned one in the nineties and have a couple of them now). It’s looks in an excellent shape! Not entirely sure, but you can probably use a Y-splitter on the PS/2 port to attach both a PS/2 keyboard and a PS/2 mouse.

[tiporari]

Had a lot of these in the 2000's. They were great machines. Maintained hundreds if not thousands over the years as an IT guy back in the day. CDT's had active matrix displays. CDS' were garbage passive displays. These got much better in the 4000 series running Windows 2000.

[DxDeksor]

A screen resolution which is very good for this class of pentium laptops with 800x600 screens is the res 400x300. It's not much more demanding than 320x200 or 320x240, but it fills up all the screen which is much better !

[MisterRorschach]

I remember the first time I saw a satellite laptop. I was in awe that someone could access the internet anywhere. Then mobile internet happened and I forgot about how cool it was.

[Zethion]

I have a very similar Toshiba from that era but it's a Tecra. I have a 486 based Satellite too though. I love those computers.

[lactobacillusprime]

Iconic laptop and iconic logitech mouse - it's been a long time since I saw that green black and green logo

[Tom]

I love the sounds those old hard drives make. I have a 486 computer and it has a 540MB Conner HDD that I "repaired" (it was somehow formated as 650MB and didn't work anymore because of this) and I really like the sound it makes when it starts spinning up. Also the 850MB Quantum hard drive in the Pentium 60 I own sounds exactly like the one in this laptop.

[altbeetle]

Toshiba was offended by the ancient flash drives offered to her, but when they gave 32 GB, that's another matter

[adews]

A couple of months ago I've found a Toshiba satellite 2065 cds on eBay for $50. It's fully working and it came with the original documents and reinstall CDs!

[jackdipicche_]

i like how they wrote 2.1 bilion bytes in the ad, it gives the consumer that feeling that is such a large capacity.

[inwedavid]

I had his brother at the time the 266MMX model, it was fine and fast and reliable until I put win98 on it. All games runes fine with win95 but slow with win98 system. You should try to get win95 and do the same tests, I am sure games will run a lot faster.
Also great video

[ManosS]

I've got the 300CDT with the 166MHz CPU from 1998 and still working. Great laptop indeed!