--- title: Toshiba T100-X Dynapad categories: - Computers types: - Portable origins: - Japan years: - '1993' cpus: - AMD AM-386 SXLV params: name: T100-X Dynapad image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_t100x_system_1.jpg company: /companies/toshiba company_name: Toshiba specs: - label: NAME value: T100-X Dynapad - label: MANUFACTURER value: Toshiba - label: TYPE value: Portable - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1993' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Microsoft Pen Services for Windows - label: KEYBOARD value: None built-in, an onscreen virtual keyboard was available - label: CPU value: AMD AM-386 SXLV - label: SPEED value: 25MHz - label: RAM value: 4 MB standard, expandable to 20 MB maximum - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 640x480 VGA - label: COLORS value: 16-level grayscale - label: SOUND value: Standard PC speaker - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 'Screen 9.5'''' diagonal/ 270 x 39 x 210 mm (WxDxH) / Weight: 3.3 pounds' - label: I/O PORTS value: Serial, Keyboard, FDD (For external floppydrive), Two PCMCIA Type II slots, Parallel/LPT adaptor - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: 40MB 2.5'' hard-drive - label: OS value: MS-DOS 6.2 & Microsoft Windows 3.1 - label: POWER SUPPLY value: NiMH battery or external AC adaptor - label: PERIPHERALS value: Unknown - label: PRICE value: Unknown tabs: - photos - hardware - links - docs photos: - title: INSIDE DYNAPAD subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_t100x_inside_1.jpg hardware: - title: 6MB RAM EXPANSION CARD subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/toshiba_t100x_ramcard_1.jpg links: - title: Software and related links to the T-100X url: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4927/t100x_links.html text: '' docs: - title: DYNAPAD T100X OFFICIAL FLYER url: http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/europe/computers/flyers/classics/t100x_E.pdf cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/toshiba_dynapad_flyer.jpg text: |- [**DYNAPAD T100X OFFICIAL FLYER**](http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/europe/computers/flyers/classics/t100x_E.pdf)written by Toshiba  compiled/archived by Toshiba\  type of document : PDF\  size : 1.8 MB\  source : [Toshiba website](http://www.toshiba.com) **... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :** comments: - author: JD Duncan (US) date: Sunday 17th May 2020 text: I actually still have one of these tablets. I have the tablet, keyboard, sylus, parallel cable, and the recovery floppy disks but do not have the external floppy drive. It still boots to the 40MB internal HDD. I wish I could find one of the external floppy drives. I also want to see if I can convert the HDD to a CF card. - author: Ma Boo (United States) date: Thursday 5th March 2020 text: I can''t believe I trashed my working T100 pad in the dumpster about 20 years ago. Battery didn''t hold charge long though. I use to run a GeoCities page dedicated to the T-100X. - author: Craig Woodward (New York/ USA) date: Thursday 9th August 2012 text: I owned one of these in the late 90s, and loved it. The screen was not touch, but rather was responsive to the pen via weak RF signals. The pen also needed a battery, which ran down rather easily. (AAAA as I recall). I updated mine to run Win3.11, which included easier PCMCIA services. The writing app was really outstanding as well. It recorded the pen strokes as vectors, not as raster. The allowed it to do post-writing OCR as well as real time (which was slow and could be turned off). Was quite sad when mine finally died a few years ago. - author: Keith Comer (USA) date: Thursday 7th June 2012 text: |- I was in Japan at a Product Planning meeting when we were trying to name the new box. We didn''t want to confuse it with the T-Series line of "laptops" (i.e., T1200, T1600, T3200, etc.). We decided to use only 3 digits, but that didn''t seem obvious enough of a distinction, so I suggested we put the "X" on the end, to signify "handwriting". I told the Japanese guys that, in the old days when some people couldn''t write, they would "sign with an X" (also the reason you still see an "X" at the beginning of the signature line on forms). Of course, in Japan they''ve never "signed" things longhand, so they had no idea what I was talking about. But nobody had a better idea, and they trusted me that it would "work" in the West, so it stuck: T100-X. Keith Comer\ Former Senior Product Designer, Toshiba America - author: Jacob VanAtta (Ohio/USA) date: Tuesday 29th May 2012 text: '@bluekatt I don''''t think so. A 386 and Windows 95 don''''t mix welll... I wouldn''''t try it unless you''''ve updated the motherboard to take a newer CPU.' - author: bluekatt (netherlands ) date: Sunday 31st December 2006 text: |- does anybody knowif these machines wil run windows 95 when loade dup with 20 mb of ram ?\ win 3.1 and myself dont agree with one another - author: Torin Darkflight (Iowa, USA) date: Sunday 12th December 2004 text: |- Reply to Dwight from Canada: Looking at the picture of the T100X internals, I see what appears to be two batteries. One appears to be a standard size-AA while the other looks proprietary. Exactly which battery does what I do not know, but perhaps the easiest thing to do would be trying to replace the AA battery, see if maybe that helps. If not, then you might need to search Google for any identifying numbers or codes that are printed on the other battery. Not sure if this'll be any help, but just a thought. - author: Dwight (Newfoundland, Canada) date: Monday 26th April 2004 text: Any one know what the specs are for the CMOS battery? Mine is dead. Sorta hate to throw it in the garbage if I can find a replacement. oc_id: 801 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230610110009/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=801 date: '2023-06-10' --- Long before the tablet PC craze of fall 2002, there was the Toshiba T100X Dynapad. The T100X was a "pen-based computer" (This was before the term "tablet PC" existed) which ran on a 25MHz 386 AMD CPU. It shipped with 4MB RAM and had a 40MB hard disk drive for storage. It did not include an internal floppy disk drive, but a separate external floppy disk drive could be purchased. Similar to most modern tablet PCs, the T100X did not have a built-in keyboard, and mouse pointing was done with a stylus. However it did contain ports to connect an external keyboard and serial mouse. It also contained two Type II PCMCIA slots, but it has been said configuring PCMCIA devices to work properly was often difficult. A parallel port adaptor was also included. The display consisted of a backlit 9.5" grayscale touch-sensitive LCD with a standard VGA resolution of 640x480 pixels at a color depth of 16 shades of gray. The T100X was often shipped with Windows 3.1, along with specialized drivers (Microsoft Pen Services for Windows 3.x) to enable pen and handwriting support in applications, and to allow the stylus to function as the mouse. The T100X weighed approximately 3.3 pounds, amazingly lightweight for portable PCs of the time (This was back when notebook computers easily weighed at least 8 pounds). Thanks to **Torin Darkflight** for info and pictures.