With the flood of notebook-size hitting the market from all directions, Toshiba Corp ran the risk of missing the international boat with its DynaBook if it held the thing back any longer, and accordingly the company gave the machine an impromptu worldwide launch. The T1000SE – which can’t bear the DynaBook name outside Japan – weighs 5.9 lbs and packs a 9.54MHz 80C86 CPU with 1Mb – expandable to 3Mb with a memory card, 1.44Mb 3.5 floppy, CGA-compatible 640 by 400 pixel backlit screen and full 82-key keyboard, in a 12.4 byt 10.2 by 1.8 housing – at $1,700. Memory beyond 640Kb is usable as battery-backed secondary storage or expanded memory. The thing has selectable parallel printer/external 5.25 floppy port and nine-pin RS-232-C serial port; there’s a dedicated slot for a 2,400bps modem and 100-pin expansion bus connector and a universal AC adaptor is available; battery packs take four hours to recharge. In the US, the company also announced the T3100SX, its first battery-powered 80386SX portable at $6,000 with VGA screen resolution on a gas plasma display. Memory is 1Mb, going 13Mb and it has 40Mb 25mS access hard and 1.44Mb floppy disks.
