I got it 😀 The reason it's worth $66 is very good condition, "no fancy crap", as Toni Cipriani used to say. A good bag came with it as well. Even if it came with a battery, it would be lame to expect it to run for more than half an hour.
From what I've seen, people here ask $100 for whacked up 486 toshibas, others combine 2 or 3 of them to get something close to normal condition - the old plastic is no good. But this one is really good 😀
Now the specs!
Celeron 300Mhz Mendocino
192MB SDRAM in SODIMM package
Silicon Motion Lynx E SM 811 2MB
10GB IBM hard drive
13.3" 1024x768 display with no scaling support
Windows XP + Windows 2000
CD drive
Floppy drive
That's just as much info as I could gather without any special software.
It came with Sitecom Fast Ethernet 10/100 LAN card. Unfortunately, it came without a dongle... I will have to find another PCMCIA card for cheap, it seems to be better than crafting or buying a dongle.
Concerning the battery - I thought I sould buy 8 rechargable 2500 mAh AA batteries and a holder to wire up to the power connector, but a friend of mine told me to look for a pair of more effecient accumulators in a local shop. He said cardiostimulator batteries would do (what else to expect from a medical engineer?)... What do you think?
What do you think I should do to deal with screen scaling? Is there any TSR/utility that cuts off the edges of the screen so that only the middle 640x480 or 800x600 is displayed? The laptop itself does not seem to have such an option.
P.S. It runs XP surprisingly fine, but I think I should go for 98 anyway.