Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoshiaki Iba

Hirofumi Nishikawa

Masao Suga

Toshimitsu Saito

Nobuyuki Nanno

Shigeru Satake

Hidekazu Mihara

Tadaaki Inomata

Syuzo Nakajima

Atsuhiro Outake

A portable computer that includes a first ROM for storing an OS, a second ROM for storing at least one piece of existing application software, and a flat display panel for displaying at least one icon to read out the existing application software stored in the second ROM. Since the DOS and the application program are respectively stored in a DOS ROM and an application ROM, the DOS or the application can be quickly executed without install processing from floppy disks.

Portable computer with a bank switch for switching between a ROM and a

When the MS-DOS is not installed from an FDD or an HDD but is installed from a built-in DOS ROM arranged in a memory space in which bank access to the computer main body can be performed, at the time the system power is turned on, a menu display processing program stored in the DOS ROM is executed by the DOS. Upon execution of the program, the arrangement of menu icons can be arbitrarily changed on the menu screen.

Portable computer which has a task selection menu allowing easy

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiaki Iba