Toshiba busts out old notebooks and new models

What better way to show off past Toshiba notebooks than a catwalk parade. We were treated to a tech fashion show of a different sort today, as models from the Sydney Fashion Festival showed of some of the most important notebooks in Toshiba's history. The event marked the 25th anniversary of Toshiba's first laptop.

The year is 1985, the laptop is the Toshiba T1100. Key specs include an 8MHz CPU, 256KB RAM, a 3.5in floppy drive, a 640x290-resolution monochrome screen, and it weighed 4.1kg. The price? $2990.

Modelled here by Laura.
The year is 1986, the laptop is the Toshiba 3100m, which was the world's first notebook with an internal hard drive, and it weighed a solid 6.8kg. The Toshiba 3100m had a storage capacity of 20MB, a plasma display with a resolution of 640x400, and it RAM MS-DOS 3.2.

Modelled by Keiran.
The year is 1986, the laptop is the Toshiba 3100m, which was the world's first notebook with an internal hard drive, and it weighed a solid 6.8kg. The Toshiba 3100m had a storage capacity of 20MB, a plasma display with a resolution of 640x400, and it RAM MS-DOS 3.2.

Modelled by Keiran.
The year is 1990. The laptop is the Toshiba T4600. It was the first laptop with a nickel metal hydrate battery, which provided up to three hours of life away from an outlet. The cost of the T4600 exceeded $16,000 and it came with 1MB of RAM, as well as a colour screen with a resolution of 640x480. It weighed 3.2kg.

Modelled by Melissa A.
The year is 1990. The laptop is the Toshiba T4600. It was the first laptop with a nickel metal hydrate battery, which provided up to three hours of life away from an outlet. The cost of the T4600 exceeded $16,000 and it came with 1MB of RAM, as well as a colour screen with a resolution of 640x480. It weighed 3.2kg.

Modelled by Melissa A.
The year is 1993. The laptop is the first pen-based tablet PC: the Toshiba Dynapad T100X. It was equipped with a 386 CPU, 4MB RAM, 9.5in screen with a 640x480 resolution, a 40MB hard drive, and it weighed 1.5kg. It had external keyboard and floppy options.

Modelled by Katie.
The year is 1993. The laptop is the first pen-based tablet PC: the Toshiba Dynapad T100X. It was equipped with a 386 CPU, 4MB RAM, 9.5in screen with a 640x480 resolution, a 40MB hard drive, and it weighed 1.5kg. It had external keyboard and floppy options.

Modelled by Katie.
The year is 1995. The laptop is the Toshiba 2150. This is the world's first laptop with a built-in CD drive. It had 28MB of RAM, a 520MB hard drive and it ran Windows 3.11.

Modelled by Corey.
The year is 2001. The laptop is the Toshiba Portege 4000. This was the first notebook with built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and its design was inspired by the Audi TT. It weighed only 1.7kg

Modelled by Melissa C.
The year is 2001. The laptop is the Toshiba Portege 4000. This was the first notebook with built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and its design was inspired by the Audi TT. It weighed only 1.7kg

Modelled by Melissa C.
The year is 2004. The laptop is the Toshiba Qosmio G10, the world's first AV notebook. It had an 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM and much more. It also received a 3.5-star rating when [[artnid:142085|we first reviewed it|Review: Toshiba Qosmio G10]]. No doubt its $5999 price tag dragged that rating down a little. It was so new, we had to explain the pronunciation of the Qosmio name: Koz-mio.

Modelled by Keiran.
The year is 2004. The laptop is the Toshiba Qosmio G10, the world's first AV notebook. It had an 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM and much more. It also received a 3.5-star rating when [[artnid:142085|we first reviewed it|Review: Toshiba Qosmio G10]]. No doubt its $5999 price tag dragged that rating down a little. It was so new, we had to explain the pronunciation of the Qosmio name: Koz-mio.

Modelled by Keiran.
The year is 2005. The laptop is the thin and light Portege R200, the world's first RoHS-compliant computer. We [[artnid:140488|reviewed it back in September 2005|Review: Toshiba Portege R200]].

Modelled by Katie.
The year is 2008. The laptop is the Toshiba Qosmio F50, one of the first quad-core notebooks on the market. We [[artnid:260999|reviewed it back in September 2008|Review: Toshiba Qosmio F50]].

Modelled by Melissa A.
The year is 2008. The laptop is the Toshiba Qosmio F50, one of the first quad-core notebooks on the market. We [[artnid:260999|reviewed it back in September 2008|Review: Toshiba Qosmio F50]].

Modelled by Melissa A.
The year is 2009. The laptop is the [[artnid:299321|Toshiba Portege R600|Review: Toshiba Portege R600]], the world's first notebook with an SSD hard drive. We love this little thing, and have [[artnid:303603|exposed its insides in a previous gallery|Strip show: Toshiba Portege R600]].

Modelled by Melissa C.
The year is 2009. The laptop is the [[artnid:299321|Toshiba Portege R600|Review: Toshiba Portege R600]], the world's first notebook with an SSD hard drive. We love this little thing, and have [[artnid:303603|exposed its insides in a previous gallery|Strip show: Toshiba Portege R600]].

Modelled by Melissa C.

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