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First post, by ednevell

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Ok so I eye'd this little beauty on ebay a couple weeks ago, and had to have it.

Laptop is in great condition, but had no HDD so I threw in a 10gb spinny mess I had in my pile.

System boots to bios, will boot of a dos startup floppy. I really want to get this running dos and maybe windows 95.

I am having the hardest time finding any info on this laptop!

If any one can help me out that would be great, I have no data on what os it came with. Any specs aside from the 32mb of ram and the 75mhz dx4 would help.

Wish it had atleast had the hdd in it.

Thanks for the help!

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Reply 1 of 3, by sangokushi

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It looks almost the same as AcerNote Light 75MHz, except your screen has a contrast control.

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Reply 2 of 3, by ednevell

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sangokushi wrote on 2023-07-15, 16:57:

It looks almost the same as AcerNote Light 75MHz, except your screen has a contrast control.

Do you think the recovery software would be the same? Or should I just Yolo it and install 95?

Also I have been out of the dos game for so long I am having issues creating a dos install. 🤣

I have always been a hardware guy, software just drives me nuts.

Thanks for the info.

Reply 3 of 3, by sangokushi

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ednevell wrote on 2023-07-15, 18:40:
Do you think the recovery software would be the same? Or should I just Yolo it and install 95? […]
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sangokushi wrote on 2023-07-15, 16:57:

It looks almost the same as AcerNote Light 75MHz, except your screen has a contrast control.

Do you think the recovery software would be the same? Or should I just Yolo it and install 95?

Also I have been out of the dos game for so long I am having issues creating a dos install. 🤣

I have always been a hardware guy, software just drives me nuts.

Thanks for the info.

For 486 laptop, the recovery software usually just a floppy diskette utility to create OS + driver + utility installation diskettes.

Since you have a working floppy drive, install DOS should be easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1DIoGwp0g

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