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Nighthawk
Ive tried for 2 Months to find a DOS version computer. I found the one on Ebay I told you guys about and it didnt last an hour or so until the screen went black. My aunt who is like a second mom tried to surprise me and found a Toshiba Satelite on Ebay and its loaded in spanish. My wife worked all evening trying to get the language back to English with no luck. Some things like your battery saver and boot up or resume is in english but all else is spanish. Ive got money tied up in this project and need to get this thing going or find one somewhwere I can use a credit card to purchase one. Please tell me I can turn this to english and how??This is a nice looking laptop computer I hope the language can be changed?
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  • hk-91
    i have the rebuild disk for my toshiba i wonder if that would work for yours. what modle do you have.
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  • select-fire
    Try the F-12 button.
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  • iwannausername
    nighhawk - reformat and reinstall....

    If you really need a DOS box, and are willign to pay shipping, I've got some pentium class stuff in the garage. I think I even have an install set for MS DOS 6.22 (last version of pure dos) somewhere...
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  • Nighthawk
    Its a Toshiba Satelite 425CDT/810. If I knew how to clear out the Hard Drive could I not download the software on a floppy from my other DOS computer and put it on this one? If so how do you clear the HD? 46270 offered me a Compaq 486 DOS Laptop for $75.00 thats my best option, but after replaceing a heat pump and a kitchen appliance within two weeks of each other my contingency funds are gone. If he still has it I hope to get it next month. My wife installed one of my software floppy disk hoping it would except it in english, it accepted it but turned it into spanish.

    How do you reformat and reinstall? Or if I could clear the HD could I put all my DOS software on it from my other DOS 6.22 computer that the screen quit working on? If so would someone mind explaining how to do it? I cant believe how hard these things are to find.
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  • select-fire
    Here you go.. Wifes old Toshiba 1555CDS, Windows 98, Microsoft Office 2000 professional, Lotus Smart Suite, MS-Dos prompt, A drive, cd rom drive, Power cord, battery will not charge, manuals. Cheap, email me. Took picture with dos screen on top of windows...


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  • Tailgunner1954
    Humm, if you like antique computers, I believe I have a Epson Notebook somewhere in the basement. It has a built in mini-cassette tape drive, 2" printer and 3 line LCD screen. What else could you ask for in a protable computer?
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  • ObiWan
    You have XP don't you? This is a DOS emulator:

    http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

    I guess they even have a version that'll work on a Mac.
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  • select-fire
    You have mail.. You can always sell your other one to a Spanish speaking person.
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  • Colt Super
    Do you suppose he'll be able to FIND a spanish speaking computer user ??

    His best shot to sell it would be eBay - mexico city.

    I'm sure there aren't any north of the border, who wouldn't want to use English.

    Doug
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  • 180A
    Did you ever find a DOS computer ?

    Here's a brand new one from Dell for $279.00

    http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bdcwaen&s=bsd
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