Toshiba Libretto 20CT Teardown: SSD Upgrade + Battery Cleanup + Windows 95 Tour + Game

Replacing the stock 2.5" HDD in a 1st gen Toshiba Libretto 20CT with a CF adapter. Cleaning up a leaking CMOS battery. A tour of the Windows 95 apps + Wolf3D
Toshiba Libretto 20CT Utilities disk
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Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:05 - History and Specs
01:40 - Disassembly starts
01:48 - Memory upgrades
02:26 - Removing the factory HDD
03:30 - Removing the keyboard
05:09 - Inspecting the CMOS battery
06:41 - Cleaning up the battery
08:07 - Preparing CF adapter
08:34 - Trying caddy options
10:56 - Removing the bottom cover
13:44 - Replacing the factory HDD
14:29 - Reassembly begins
18:02 - Reinstalling the keyboard
19:35 - Boot and BIOS
19:58 - Tour of Windows 95
20:50 - Wolf3D

[@aleph_one]

Cool rare retro laptop

[@Raptor50aus]

I would love to get hold of a game joystick port PC card for my Toshiba Libretto 50CT. Plays 90's games great.

[@voodler]

There are some low-height caddy designs available for 3d printing, what do you mean when you say there are no caddies specific to the libretto available?. I'm considering making some 8mm height CF adapters available so that less librettos have to be disassembled

[@jasonnovak2121]

I'd be curious if you have a thingiverse ID or similar to check, I haven't looked recently but I've been using those two fine in most other laptops. The liberettos seem to be a very tight fit, and I think with the IDE connector slightly off there is no room to adjust. If I recall I think the 50-70ct are a little better, but then the 100/110ct were tight again. Those caddies could probably be made thinner to help, or card moved slightly

[@Raptor50aus]

Just wondering if you have seen any serial port based joysticks or even parallel port type?

[@jasonnovak2121]

I think options are probably pretty limited, there is way to connect an SNES controller to a parallel port, but that's more for Windows, not sure if there are dos drivers. There is a PC card but I think it's pretty rare. Otherwise USB perhaps, the 100ct and newer one at least via the dock, or there are USB pc cards, but again maybe will have issues with DOS

[@L30NBL4NK]

Nice pocket PC