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It so out of place it might as well be 4x bigger 😁
Reminds me of my habit of sticking these stickers all over my monitors. I mean what the hell, its made to open the pack but why does it always just simply unstick from the thing, crazy stuff.

PeterLI wrote:

I am sure it will. Instead of a random Craigslist person this is a power seller on eBay as well. Bonanza is just better for deals because they charge less commission. 🤣

Make sure to tell the seller to pack it well for shipping. Power sellers screw people up as well and a negative feedback won't do much to them as they can take a hit easily.

As someone who pretty much owns a museum he probably knows that already 😀

I think it's safe to say: I've had a successful evening. At least, when the ghost of Linux on the hard drive stopped being a pain in the proverbials.

Trackpoint feels like new, battery actually charges (!) but only lasts for 5 minutes, mouse buttons are both perfect, keyboard is fine, screen is fine, speaker sounds great, very loud and clear... all I need to do is sort out the 5.5GB partition mess (Windows 95B/OSR 2.0 installed, so FAT32 support is there) that I have, and it'll be sorted. I'm absolutely delighted with how well this works, although it does need a new RTC battery, and I do need to test the original CD-ROM drive (swapped it for a newer drive that would have less issue with my tatty CD-RWs).

Ya'll stop the bickering!!!!! 😎

Lukeno94 wrote:

NeoMagic? Never heard of them before. Nice looking little laptop that one, and the TFT screen is always a massive plus.

Popular in 1997-2000 notebooks. No 3D in anything they made regardless of what they advertised. They also have poor support for resolutions below 640x480. Nice Windows GUI chips though.

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I didn't have to half jump through some hoops to get the OS installed... even ignoring the mess Linux made. Due to the inability for the Satellite 200CDT to boot from a CD, its lack of a floppy drive (yes, really), AND Windows 95's inability to boot from a CD, I had to burn a boot floppy with my Vaio, and install the OS in my Dell Inspiron 8000 (easiest laptop to swap hard drives around with)... fortunately, it worked (after using the XP SP2 installer to nuke the Linux partition; fdisk couldn't do it properly).

I finally found a boxed Sound Blaster 2.0 Value. I bought one of these 20 years ago, mail order for 90 bucks. It was my first ever sound card and I clearly remember the day it arrived, and my amazement at the magical sounds my computer could make after I installed it.

This one’s box is a bit shabby unfortunately but the contents are good – the seller claimed NOS. The disks are mostly DOA despite being sealed, just died of old age I suppose. There’s no revision after the model number which I understand means that it will work with a homemade CMS chip.

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I think thats why creative put those non-working cms cards as `value` in the box.

PeterLI wrote:

Cool! It may not work with the alternative CMS master after all since you have a CT1336A chip. You need a CT1336 chip. 😀

Good to know! Realistically I probably won't ever use this card at all, my Pro 2.0 is far more useful with its stereo and a mixer for line in. This is more of a collectors item.

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Found LOTS of (mainly) IBM ps2 keyboards today, in the side of the road:

There's to do a big cleaning here 😀

Nah.. you know they're good when they're yellow. 😀

Some of the most impressive yellowing I've ever seen there!

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Bought for 10$ at the local auction of scrap computer, among others, a Tyan tahoe S1686D mobo (Intergraph oem) with one pII sl28r onboard, matrox millenium pci with memory upgrade card and 8x32MB edo simm. In fully working condition. Mice operated bios. Details on attached images.

Callahan wrote:

Bought for 10$ at the local auction of scrap computer, among others

😲 what an awesome deal! That tyan board will make a heck of a winx/dos system.

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Just got this bad boy the other day...you tandy coco fans and maybe even some of you non tandy fans will appreciate this.

I've been looking for one for a while and it's in very good shape.

Wow.

Then and now the Tandy computers just seem to be the most amazing old dinosaurs.