The Toshiba Tecra 8000 (as well as the Portege 300CT) was the first pre year 2000 laptop that I owned. It was made is 1999 and originally came with Windows 98SE, but the owner had upgraded it to Windows XP (though I can't imagine that it ran very well since it only has 256mb ram and a 366mhz Pentium 2. Since I wanted it to have a Period accurate OS, I wiped the HDD and installed Windows 98SE. If you have one of these laptops (or any Toshiba laptop in fact), then you need to open it up and take the two BIOS and clock batteries out, because these can leak and destroy the motherboard.