CelGen wrote:

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Luggable!

Toshiba T3200SX. Fitted with 4mb ram, a modem in the expansion bay and a modem/ethernet combo card in one of the ISA slots. The 40 hard drive literally had nothing on it so I gave it a new format and dropped down DOS 6.22. Just need to replace the CMOS battery now.

I don't know what it is about that orange, but it is GLORIOUS. I'm going to have to get myself a luggable now. 🙁

I replaced my 98SE with Me in late 2000 and used it in my daily rig till I upgraded to XP in mid 2004. I can't recall any big problems or frustrations from that period. I was doing the same that I'm doing today: Internet, movies and games. It just worked.

The rig was something built by myself and definitely not an OEM rig. It started as a Pentium MMX 233 and finally upgraded to a PIII 733 much later. It had above average Asus motherboards (P5A-B, P3B-F and then CUSL2C BP) and Asus branded Nvidia display cards of the era (Riva 128 and TNT Ultra) of the era and relatively high amounts of RAM compared to what it was common during that days.

Here is another nice dumpster find! Not found by me but I bought it from the finder for 10 euro.

Its a the remains of an IBM Aptiva 486 DX2-50 system, the only things left were the metal frame, the PSU, a floppydrive and the motherboard with CPU. The metal frame was so skewed that the riser cards edge connector was fully outside its slot eventhough its screwed to the frame. I added 2x4MB memory, a Soundforte 16-FMP-03 and my testdrive, the system seems to work perfectly. This version of the Aptiva motherboard is cacheless though and adding cache is not possible without soldering. I bumped up the CPU to 66 MHz to make up for the lack of cache, I will probably also add another 512KB video memory.

The Aptiva - Side view

The Aptive - Top view

The Aptiva - Speedsys

The Aptiva - PCPbench VGAmode

The last LPX board I got had dead video but working cache, this board has working video but no cache, some day I will find a LPX board with both cache and working video...

8.8 in Superscape on a 486? I think you have more to worry about than Cache here.

HighTreason wrote:

8.8 in Superscape on a 486? I think you have more to worry about than Cache here.

Its PCPbench -vgamode, the score is pretty much what can be expected! 😉

My Leo is pretty much the same hardware and scores considerably higher. I doubt the 33MHz BUS would make that much difference, but I might clock it down just to be certain.

HighTreason wrote:

My Leo is pretty much the same hardware and scores considerably higher. I doubt the 33MHz BUS would make that much difference, but I might clock it down just to be certain.

Well this cacheless Aptiva isnt very fast but that is exactly what could be expected.

Note that the 8.8 FPS score is at 2x33 MHz not 2x25 MHz.

Got lucky at the dumpster today. I found a cute, bright pink Sony netbook in fabulous condition! 😊
I probably looked like a giant doofus carrying it home, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

-Atom N470 CPU (1.83GHz with HT)
-2GB DDR2-667 RAM
-GMA 3150 IGP
-250GB HDD
-Win7 Home Premium 32

It had the AC adapter, battery, and even a dual-band USB WLAN adapter sticking out of it. I'm a little surprised it didn't come with a Hello Kitty sleeve!

Standard Def Steve wrote:

I probably looked like a giant doofus carrying it home, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Haha indeed. I'd be happy with that find despite the color!!

Standard Def Steve wrote:

I'm a little surprised it didn't come with a Hello Kitty sleeve!

Had a proper good laugh at this.

petro89 wrote:

Standard Def Steve wrote:

I probably looked like a giant doofus carrying it home, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Haha indeed. I'd be happy with that find despite the color!!

I'd walk home with a couple of these under my arm any day 😁

Standard Def Steve wrote:

fabulous

This was my first thought looking at the images.

I'd make fun of you, but deep down I'd know I own a few things which are hot pink. I think the worst though, was back when I was a kid I learned to ride a bike by dragging some Barbie bike around, that was my first bicycle without stabilizers, handlebar tassels and all.

Anyway, it works, so the color doesn't really matter. Sure looks better than that tacky silver coated crap which was perennial in the mid-2000s.

Standard Def Steve, lucky you! These netbooks are perfect for Heroes III, the 1024x600 screen fits 800x600 picture pixel per pixel, makes the game look fabulous!

What's the game on the screen?

On my Netbook (1024x600) I always bung the taskbar to the left instead of the bottom.

also, don't use it all the time, but have the reg tweak that allows running a scaled 1024x768, for the odd thing that refuses to run with less - text is a bit grotty in that mode!

Why would somebody throw that out ?? It's mint! I hate "disposable culture."

Glad you saved it. BTW the color is the best part, I would rock that in an instant.

I don't get why people have such a hate for netbooks. They're the perfect handy size, run browser software adequately, and I can run Munt and early 90s games in DOSBox. Good enough for on the road!

gdjacobs wrote:

I don't get why people have such a hate for netbooks. They're the perfect handy size, run browser software adequately, and I can run Munt and early 90s games in DOSBox. Good enough for on the road!

I loved mine, but for some reason, the 1024x600 resolution drove me insane. All I wanted was a slightly bigger monitor (1024x768) and I would have been happy. Hell my netbook was fully upgraded. SSD in the hard drive slot, extra ram... Ended up selling it.

gdjacobs wrote:

I don't get why people have such a hate for netbooks. They're the perfect handy size, run browser software adequately, and I can run Munt and early 90s games in DOSBox. Good enough for on the road!

My longest and really only experience was an Acer Aspire Netbook that would max the ram out constantly just light web browsing. That is what soured me on em, although I will admit that when I installed a fresh install of Win7 Basic and maxed the ram out to 2gb before giving it away it ran pretty dang good. One of those with an SSD would actually be fun

ODwilly wrote:

My longest and really only experience was an Acer Aspire Netbook that would max the ram out constantly just light web browsing.

More a comment on the inefficiency of modern browsers, IMHO.

im blown away by how dumb + selfish general society is. to throw away a perfectly good working computer, just because it wasnt fast enuff for whoever owned it.. or because they got a new one.... mindblowing..
like at least donate it to those in need or something.. wow.