Toshiba laptop questions???

Question

Ok so i got this old outdated Toshiba laptop. Its a Toshiba Satellite T2130CS. Has no CD drive but it does have a floppy drive. I really want to surf the internet on it because that is pretty much all its good for. I have a USRobotics cellular card. Its kinda old. What u do with it is plug it into the side of the laptop press a button and a phone jack pops out for a phone cord. But any ways how do i get the darn thing online. I was looking through it and found an internet browser. I clicked it and it told me that i needed to put in the windows 95 floppy disk. Where can i get one for cheap or even free? Also is there a floppy I could get with an internet browser like mozilla fire fox or internet explorer on it. If i did get the internet browser on it would i be able to put a wireless wifi card in it and would it work?


Johnny

Answer 1

This probably isn't all that cheap:

http://cgi.ebay.com/GENUINE-Windows-95-on-Floppy-Disk-Sealed-New_W0QQitemZ120154298555QQihZ002QQcategoryZ41885QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

but there might be cheaper ones on eBay, which is probably your best bet for locating a copy of Windows 95. There probably isn't any legal way to get 95 for free.

Now, for the browser: The floppy-disk version of Windows 95 did not, to my knowledge, come with Internet Explorer. What I would do is get a copy of Dillo:

http://dillo-win.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html

or some other light browser that can fit on a floppy. Once you have Dillo installed, you can then download and install another browser. Firefox might be too heavy, so try K-Meleon:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

instead. I don't know about getting drivers for your card; that is something you would have to look up yourself.