T1600

    The internals of the T1600 PSU: A deep dive

    As promised in my previous post this post will go in-depth on the internals of the T1600 PSU.Most of my work was done using the FIVPS2 revision of the board but most of it applies to the FIVPS3 and FIVPS4 revisions as well. There are only minor changes, a couple of the dual capacitors (the …

    Toshiba T1600 – Power supply board – part 2

    In the previous part on the Toshiba T1600 Power supply board I talked about how I traced the board and identified some of the mistery components on it. I also showed my repair efforts on the T1600/40’s PSU and how it required minimal effort to fix. As stated at the end of the previous part, …

    Toshiba T1600 – Power supply board

    In my last post about the Toshiba T1600 I took a first look at the machine and explained my first troubleshooting steps towards fixing the power supply (PSU) board.This post will go a bit further in-depth on the PSU, in on of the next posts I’ll explain a bit on how it works. This series …

    The T1600: An oddball addition to the Toshiba family

    And more PSU debugging Back in October I acquired a Toshiba T1600 for very little money.It didn’t look all that great from the advertisers pictures and was, as most of these late 80’s/early 90’s Toshiba laptops, sold as not working but I thought I’d take my chances with it.I really like the funky nature of …