Non-Portable-Based Electronic Projects

rawls · Post by **rawls** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:47 am

I have an old Dell laptop which is a Pentium 133Mhz with a 500mb hard drive and not enough ram (probably 16 megs). It has a nice TFT screen but I tried to get on the internet a few years back and it took a couple minutes just to load Yahoo. It does run Nesticle nice, though.

The funny thing is that even though it is a bit smaller than my IBM ThinkPad (it is a little thicker, but smaller width and height wise), the Dell weighs at least twice as much as the IBM.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:13 pm

Ah, old computers...

I am the proud owner of a pair of Commodore 64s, a disk drive for each, tons of software, a fast load cartridge, a Commodore 1902 color monitor, and a modem.

I also have a complete AppleIIc system with monochrome monitor a printer, and tons of software, though not as much as the Coomodore. All but the monitors and one Commodore have the original boxes.

I am also the proud owner of several pre-Pentium boards. They are a pair of VERY small 386SX-40s(one has a 387 co processor) with 16-bit ISA, and I may try to install 95 on one one day just to see if it works. If not, I'll install a Linux OS perhaps.

I also have verious 486es or varying expansion ports. One has PCI/ISA, one is VL -Bus/ISA, and 2 are EISA/VL-Bus/ISA. O.o Those two are very odd finds.

My only laptop is a 100MHz Toshiba 100CS (no, it hasn't been gutted for the LCD and video controller board. The 100CS LCD is no good for gaming, as it has considerable blurr.) Which I installed Windows 95 on. it only runs 256 color, and even that took a long time to find the driver for... that and I had to install 95 via an external Zip Drive and a homebrew Windows 95OSR2 Zip Disk.

That's right. Now all I need to install 95 to a computer is a floppy drive, a hard drive, and a parallel port. ^^

Wondering the method? Ask and I shall tell.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:37 pm

I shall ask...

now tell.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:36 pm

bicostp wrote:[old man voice] well, sonny, let me show you something that's probably older than you are...

Yes, it's the Macintosh SE/30. Mine has a 9 inch Black and White CRT with 520 by 320 resolution. It is fully loaded with a network card (TokenRing) and it has met its memory limit: 8mb. (8 1mb cards)
Date of manufacture: 1989.
Speed: 16 Mhz 68030.
Hard drive: The optional internal 80MB SCSI drive.
Price as new: $8,000.

can't beat my 197? apple II plus with a 7in B/W monitor

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:36 am

197.....

thats was a LONG time ago

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:43 pm

ninteen seventy something

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:19 pm

the year 197 when some old did something

Post by **bicostp** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:21 pm

1978-79. Apple was founded in 1977, and they made the Apple 1 that year. (It's in the Smithsonian! Really!)

The ][ came out in 1978, and I think the ][+ was in 1978-79.