just got a free laptop...

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

...its a compaq presario 1920!!! :santa::bday::beer::eek::drool:
heres the specs on this dream machine
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Compaq_Presario_1920__5376021
:bday::bday::bday::bday:

300 mhz pentium 2 ftw

[antipacker]

wow your one lucky guy!!!!

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

lol you people dont know me well enough
i like old pc's a lot
i even have a 66 MHZ dx2 processor from 1989

[OldSkool]

Congrats!:beer:

[uberwoot]

i use to have a old p2 lappy. that thing was a bring but i would rather have it than a new on. yeah it was slower and only had usb 1.0 but i could drop that thing down the stares and it was fine and dident have a scrach. i even tossed it across my room and the thing just took it and laughed because i couldent hurt it.


congrats on the lappy, any plans for it?

[Neuromancer]

lol you people dont know me well enough
i like old pc's a lot
i even have a 66 MHZ dx2 processor from 1989

My 486 lasted me until the mid 90's. Was it the DX2 that had the random freeze issues?

[PhysX]

did they even haveheatsinks on the dx2's ? maybe thats what wascausing them to freeze... the fact there was no heatsink haha

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

@PhysX - Nah, there were heatsinks, and they were tiny. I still have them.
@uberwoot - Yeah, maybe my mobile programming rig.

[nd4spdbh2]

haha ya thats old... my uncle brough up 2 old laptops (both the same) and both wernt working... one had a cracked screen but the rest was fine, and the other had a good screen but the mobo and everthing was bad... so i made one good one.

its a sony ultra portable PCG-SRX87 10inch screen 256mb ram, 20gb hd Pentium 3M 850mhz cpu... is perfect for my night class... i can chill online chat browse the net and take notes for the 3 hrs im @ my college at night. haha sorry for the side track.

[Tsiriel]

I was absolutely in love with my IBM PII laptop. That thing was built like a tank, and even ran pretty great for how old it was. Too bad the ide cable ripped on it the last time I was working on it.

[Mpegger]

My 486 lasted me until the mid 90's. Was it the DX2 that had the random freeze issues?

I think it was the 486DX 50 that had the freeze issue, not the DX2 50, as the DX2 50 was just a internally clock doubled cpu.

Back then, whatever speed the CPU ran at, was also the clockspeed of the memory, ISA, EISA, and VL-Bus slots. So a true 50MHz system was really pushing it, at that time. I remember them being in ads for only a couple of months, then gone and replaced with the DX2's.

[Adragontattoo]

I have multiple old laptops, my alarm clock is a p3 500 Mcron lappie, I have another that I cant remember the password I put on it that is a p1 466 running 2k.

I am going to strip the p1, reload linux on it and use it as a remote/terminal for my firewall.

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

haha ya thats old... my uncle brough up 2 old laptops (both the same) and both wernt working... one had a cracked screen but the rest was fine, and the other had a good screen but the mobo and everthing was bad... so i made one good one.

its a sony ultra portable PCG-SRX87 10inch screen 256mb ram, 20gb hd Pentium 3M 850mhz cpu... is perfect for my night class... i can chill online chat browse the net and take notes for the 3 hrs im @ my college at night. haha sorry for the side track.


64 megs of ram here. :santa:

[JLK03F150]

I think it was the 486DX 50 that had the freeze issue, not the DX2 50, as the DX2 50 was just a internally clock doubled cpu.

Back then, whatever speed the CPU ran at, was also the clockspeed of the memory, ISA, EISA, and VL-Bus slots. So a true 50MHz system was really pushing it, at that time. I remember them being in ads for only a couple of months, then gone and replaced with the DX2's.

I have a DX 50 & a DX2 66. My first overclock was an accident setting jumpers when switching from the 50 to the 66. lol

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

Lol. Thats a nice way to start. Do you still have the DX 50? Ill take it from you for 1 dollar...

[JLK03F150]

I still have both of them & the fan from their old HSF is cooling the north bridge on my AW9D-Max. lol

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

I have my 2 DX4's and my 1 DX2 with fan, hs etc. If I wanted to I could put the whole thing back together and use it.

[Oroka Sempai]

lmao, I just threw out my vintage CPU collection in a recent 'junk purge'. The crown jewel was my 286 CPU. My friends mom still had a 286 system, so I traded her a P1 system I had kicking around just so I could get the CPU :D

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

Lol, nice. Post a pic for me please, I wanna see what it looks like, never saw one in my life.

[Oroka Sempai]

unfortunatly it went in the dumpster. It was socketed kinda like current BIOS chips, just bigger.

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

Aw. Sucks about dumpster.