First post, by fillosaurus
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I got an old IBM ThinkPad 600E as a X-mas gift.
P II 366, 128 Mb RAM, 6 Gb HDD; had some minor problems, like I received it without a charger and CD-ROM and had a bad BIOS battery.
I ordered charger, CD-ROM, BIOS battery and 512 Mb (2x256 low density) SDRAM for it, also a SD-ATA44 adapter.
I thought I order a 16 Gb card, but I am undecided yet, I might get a 32 Gb one. More than enough for the DOS games I want to put on it, also for a lightweight Linux.
Now it has 544 Mb of RAM (32 onboard+2x256 SODIMM), and the old 6 Gb Hitachi HDD is both slow and noisy.
Video is Neomagic MagicMedia256AV with 2.5 Mb, and sound a weird combination of PCI Crystal Soundfusion 4610 which uses an ISA Crystal 4239 as codec. DOS SB compatibility is made by 4239. Not my choice of an ideal DOS soundchip, but beggars can't be choosers. In Windows 98SE the 4610 has nice sound, even good MIDI. Since I installed S-YXG50 I could make a direct comparision between it and Soundfusion MIDI. Not bad at all; of course, not as good as S-YXG50, but not far behind.
Y2K box: AMD Athlon K75 (second generation slot A)@700, ASUS K7M motherboard, 256 MB SDRAM, ATI Radeon 7500+2xVoodoo2 in SLI, SB Live! 5.1, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, 40 GB Seagate HDD.
WIP: external midi module based on NEC wavetable (Yamaha clone)