The computer is a laptop, purchased at 123 Compute in Toronto. Their web page is www.123compute.com. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT, and it was reconditioned. There was a KPMG sticker on the bottom when I got it. It came with an OEM copy of Microsoft Windows 95, but no installation CD.
Since I already have a computer, with a CD burner, I purchased a null modem cable. I zipped the software directory, and I transferred it over the serial port, all eighty megs of it. The serial setup will be described below.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT. Serial number 28018072. This was reconditioned, rather than new. It came with a KPMG sticker on the bottom with the serial number 203991.
Intel Pentium, 233, CPU. The boot message says something about 465.31 BogoMIPS, and also something about enabling a F0 0F bug workaround. According to the Toshiba help, it has MMX technology, and a 16KB write-back internal cache.
64MB.
Chips and Technologies B65555 SVGA with 2MB RAM. The Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8 installers are agreed that is a CT65555.
12.1 inch TFT colour LCD, 16 million colours at 800x600 resolution. The installation program probed in and described it as a TOS5081, and selected a horizontal frequency of 31.5-48.5MHz, and a vertical frequency of 50-70Hz. There is no other mention of this information, anywhere else.
Red Hat 7.0 selected a horizontal frequency of 31.5MHz, and a vertical frequency of 60Hz.
BM-DTCA-24090, 3909MB w/468kB Cache, CHS=993/128/63
Toshiba model PA2611U. Serial number 77068996. This is an external drive ``dedicated to use Floppy Drive only''. The floppy drive is removable from the case, and it can be inserted into the computer, in place of the CD-ROM. There is a KPMG sticker on the floppy, with the serial number 202699.
Toshiba CD-ROM XM-1502BS, ATAPI CDROM drive. This is removable. It can be replaced with the floppy drive. I haven't checked it for KPMG stickers. The Toshiba help files describe it as 10X speed.
Yamaha OPL3-SA3 sound chip, compatible with SoundBlaster Pro V3.01.
Some kind of 33K modem. This is a ``real'' modem, not a winmodem, so I have had no problems using it, other than the fact that it runs at only 33K.
84 key keyboard which emulates the IBM PS/2 keyboard. It comes with the ``AccuPoint'' pointing device. I could learn to like this. You can type and point without moving your hands off the home row.
The tilde character and the reverse quote are located down just to the right of the space bar where I am not used to it. These are important in a UNIX/LATEX environment.