Here I am sat at my parents place in Hertfordshire.

Way back when, I bought a Toshiba Libretto L110CT laptop computer brand new. This computer was ahead of its time, and is about the size of a VHS tape and you could install either Windows NT 4, or Windows 95.

Spec as it is now:

Pentium 200MMX Cpu, overclocked to 233MHZ.

20GB HDD

64MB RAM

800x480 Colour TFT display

PCMCIA Floppy Drive

Wireless Lan thanks to a PCMCIA wireless G adapter.

It originally had a 4GB HDD and 32MB ram, no ethernet, no wireless and no USB either as it predates USB version 1. The machine is in mint condition having had very little use at all.

The remarkable thing is that, here we are in 2013 and it still works fine. Just booted it up for the first time in more than 3 years, and its currently downloading updates for XP. Battery is charging nicely as well despite being more than 15 years old.

I have the original factory restore discs, and in the loft we found the original box for the machine.

Thing is, on that box is the original price sticker from when it was new. £1999 , yep just under 2K. a lot of money now, never mind back then.

You're local! We're they really that expensive?! I remember buying half a dozen for work about 15 years ago but I didn't realise they were that much! Toshiba used to do great, ultra reliable, kit. Not sure if that is still the case however.

Currently sitting in Stevenage, off to Dorset later on.

Well its been reliable, its been jammed in aircraft overhead lockers and was the laptop of choice for going on holiday. It's small and fitted very easily into a bag for the plane.

Now its busy installing a Java update.

Only up the road then! Agreed, I used to use one of the work ones for travelling and it was great. Seems like so long ago now! Nice to know yours is still going strong!

An unusual little thing like that I'd be disconnecting the battery, boxing it all up and sealing in an antistatic bag with a pile of silica gel.

mate hang on to it. they still aren't cheap and yes if you can live with windows XP, youre fine.

for a VCDS machine its perfect! I recall it having 1 USB port yes?

Man, I lusted after one of these back in the day! Back around 2000/2001 I was hoovering up ex-corporate IBM ThinkPad 760s like they were going out of fashion and refurbishing them. I just wished they had USB and more than a P133 processor (although, I did have 32mb of RAM in most!)

What I really want is a Windows 7/8 tablet for VCDS though. Not found anything worthy of the money yet

Saw a Dell Win8 tab today. Everyone was genuinely impressed with it. Cheaper than Surface pro too

I think 2,000 pounds back in that timeframe was actually pretty good value for money bearing in mind laptops at that time were massively expensive anyway so for a pretty impressive little ultralight that's not as bad as it sounds.

John