{"id":983,"date":"2012-01-15T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2013-01-07T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:49:13","slug":"my-gear-chapter-5toshiba-portege-300ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/my-gear-chapter-5toshiba-portege-300ct\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gear &#8211; Chapter 5<br>Toshiba Portege 300CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-984\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Toshiba Portege 300CT\" alt=\"Toshiba Portege 300CT\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/portege300CT.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/portege300CT.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/portege300CT-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Having blown nearly 400 bucks on a <a title=\"My Gear \u2013 Chapter 4Canon PowerShot A20\" href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/\/\/\/\/\/2011\/12\/my-gear-chapter-4canon-powershot-a20\/\">camera<\/a>, I returned to the used market for a laptop and picked up a Toshiba Portege 300CT for $251 in June of 2001. A 1.5 GB hard disk was standard for this model but this unit had been upgraded to 4.1 GB. It also contained the maximum 64 MB of memory. The processor was a 133 MHz Intel Pentium. It was running Linux when I got it but I installed Windows 98 almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 VDC power supply I had purchased for the Libretto worked just fine with the Portege. I had plotted my version of my great-grandparents&#8217; trip using Microsoft Streets &amp; Trips and planned to actually use the Portege in the car to follow the plotted route. In theory, the Garmin III Plus GPS I owned could be used to drive Streets &amp; Trips (CORRECTION: My recollection was wrong. While Streets &amp; Trips was used in some of the planning, it was almost certainly DeLorme&#8217;s Street Atlas that was used with the GPS in the car.) and I had the cables to make all the power and data connections but the result was a tangle of wire that was truly scary in the small cockpit of the Corvette. So, for $167, I bought a Hyperdata GPS unit specifically to connect to the computer. This was a brand new model that was powered through its USB connection thus simplifying cabling just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The 2001 Florida trip is the only one that really made use of this setup. My girl friend, Chris, navigated the entire trip with the Portege on her lap with a pillow for insulation from the heat of the computer. Chris never complained and even stayed with me for another four years before moving on so the trip didn&#8217;t really end our relationship. I&#8217;ve a strong suspicion, however, that stunts like that are part of the reason I no longer have a girl friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-e6\">My Gear &#8211; Chapter 4 &#8212; Canon PowerShot A20<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having blown nearly 400 bucks on a camera, I returned to the used market for a laptop and picked up a Toshiba Portege 300CT for $251 in June of 2001. A 1.5 GB hard disk was standard for this model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/my-gear-chapter-5toshiba-portege-300ct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","tag-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}