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I have a toshiba T4850CT 13 years ago i was told by the guy behind a counter, that it was a dinosaur, so i put it away fully working, and with all its add-on part's, and all the original manuals etc, but i had used it for about a year.

Now it's 20 years old, and it is no longer pre-historic junk, it is now Vintage, i knew when i bought it for £50 that some day it will b worth a few bob, i believe this model was the very first commercially available office notebook on the market, it was quite simply the dog's bollock's of its day, is it worth £500+ yet ?, anyone [gene] know a collector.

Cost in 1994.

The 6.9-pound T4850CT comes standard with MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows Sound System 1.1, Indeo Video 3.2, RunTime Video for Windows 1.1 and the Fn-esse utility. Available with a three-year limited warranty, the T4850CT is currently shipping and has a suggested retail price of $6,099 for the 520 million byte HDD model and $6,499 for the 810 million byte HDD model.
 
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ive seen those mike, but 2 or 3 years ago, i came across a site that was buying/selling vintage comps, prices were stirling and my one was closer to £300 than £200, memory is a funny thing, i would have argued till the cows come home that the comp ran windows 93.

Because my first desktop ran 95, and 95 was more modern.

I tried to boot it up 3 year ago when i thought i may get £250 or it, but it was dead, obviously its a power 'thing' because it was perfectly fine when i got my first desktop and put the toshiba away.
 
But failing that the market is what it is, i cant see anyone paying 300 PS for an item they can get for 100 bucks on ebay.


i know, thats what i cant understand, is someone dropping a bollock, or has the retro fad ended.
 
The market is generally collectors either private or museums.
These things have no real practical value outside that.

Nostalgia value is a variable

There was a big interest on vintage computer cases at one stage, people refurbishing them with new MB's etc

Cool looking vintage computer cases - Page 3

But the market is a bit like that who collect old bakelite radios, collectors will pay but it has to be really rare for prices to be high

bakelite radio | eBay
 
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