On a quiet August day, I found two lonely Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT laptops in a New Hampshire thrift store. Between missing power supplies, BIOS password locks, and other maladies these laptops needed more than a little help to come back to life. But their power might surprise you—are these business machines retro gaming powerhouses in disguise? Join me as I restore these machines to working order and explore Toshiba’s history as a laptop innovator.
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00:00:00 - Opening
00:00:14 - Rescuing Abandoned Laptops
00:04:23 - Breaking Through The Back Door
00:14:06 - Where Do You Want To Go Today?
00:20:39 - The Toshiba Satellite Legacy
00:29:11 - Outtro
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Toshiba dynabooks By Solomon203 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86217129
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