Swapped 95 A for 95 C on the T2130CS (modified to exclude IE in any form, in lieu of which I installed Netscape Communicator 4.80
) so that I had FAT32 support and thus didn't have to split my 4GB SD card into two partitions. It also came with some updated libraries that I guess made it possible for some stuff to run that couldn't before. Runs about the same, if not a little better due to the >1ms access times and lack of need to defragment the "hard drive." By that I mean it's still relatively slow, but it works I guess. I still prefer DOS on there, especially since I can't get Win95's explorer to properly navigate to my SMB shares on my main Win10 LTSC machine even after enabling both NTLM v1 authentication and plain old LanMan authentication. Whatever. FTP works well enough for what I need on there, and for what doesn't work so well via FTP, I have an SD adapter anyway. I can just rip the card out and shove it in my main and copy stuff over directly. And quicker than I can by going through the network!
It's just quick enough to run Office 97 SR-2 passably, which is great as it's the minimum version to use the proper .doc format. On Windows 2000/XP you can install the Office 2007 compatibility pack which enables 97 to read and write to .docx files, unfortunately that's not an option on 9x/NT4. I edited the msi for it in Orca to set the LaunchConditions from VersionNT => 5.0 SP4 to Version => 4.0 and I could get it to install (with updated Windows Installer libraries of course) on 98SE and NT4 but the resulting install wouldn't work and Office 97 would, to its credit,
try to open a .docx but fail. Although I also found out by complete accident that Office 2019 can still open .doc files created with Word for Windows 2.0, it's just disabled by default due to security concerns, thus rendering most of my point in putting 97 on there instead of, say, 95 or even 4.3, moot.
Another thing in the "just quick enough to not piss me off" pile is Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. Would you believe it's still capable of properly rendering every single PDF in my Documents folder? It screws up the chapter text in my PDF of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but considering it's at most a 10-ish year old file being read by an at least 20 year old program, I can't be too awfully mad. I was reading the 6th edition of Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Scott Mueller in it, a 1550ish page PDF, and it was fine... Graphics took maybe just a tad too long to draw, but 95% of that book is just text.
The SVGA accelerator in it is very disappointing. It's got plenty of VRAM to push greater than 256 colors, and the chip itself supports it, as does the screen, but for whatever reason the 1.40 VBIOS from Toshiba just flat out does
not support any hi-color modes. Windows 95 was very vague about why it wouldn't work, just saying that the settings were invalid, but installing DOS/Win3.11 to another SD card and using the officially-packaged Toshiba drivers for it, it was a little more descriptive, saying that the VBIOS didn't support these modes. I have a hunch that if I connect an external display it'll magically be able to push those modes, but if I did that, what would the point be of it being a laptop? It's not like I have an era-appropriate dock around here...
I just got hit with a bunch of fraudulent charges on my Visa card from walmart.com and target.com. They got something like $1.5-2.0k of charges at walmart.com approved from before my bank suspected something was up and started declining the charges and sending me the automated text messages to confirm the charges. Now I will be without my primary credit card for 7-10 days while I wait for them to send me a new card in what might be peak shopping season.