So yesterday I was in Lille's flea market. Came back with a lot of good stuff 😁
First items : A Compaq Armada E500 With a celeron 550MHz, 5GB hdd and 64MB of RAM. Works well, the battery works too (but only for 15 mins). I merged it with parts from an other armada E500 I had to end up with a 850MHz P3 and a bigger screen. Only issue now is that the 850MHz PIII mobo has a problem with audio (I've made a post here : Compaq Armada E500 noisy speakers).
The other item is a Lifetec LT9888 which has a Pentium II 233MHz, 32MB of RAM and 3GB hdd. A madman installed Windows 2000 SP4 on a 1GB partition. The poor thing had no more ram left and no more swap left ... So I removed 2K from there x).
This is a nice laptop as well, but I've seen a crack on a hinge that wasn't there before, I fear that the plastic have become super brittle ...
Anyways, let's continue :
Next items :
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mmmh floppy disks 😁. There must be a thousand of them in there. I couldn't take it home yet though, I'll see the seller later to bring that home. I've taken some disks home though. I took DR-DOS 6.0 disks that were in there to my home to test them and a bunch of 3.5" disks.
Unfortunately the DR DOS disks were stored outside of their protective paper, so the disks got a bit nasty and they need cleaning to be read ... on the other hand, disks that were stored properly survived quite well. Whew I thought this was going to be a huge disappointment, but thankfully only disks that were left unprotected got bad it seems.
Next item:
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an amstrad CPC 6128 ! I've tested it, and it works 😁
... well for the most part at least. This is the FDD's belt. Thankfully they can be found easily.
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Next item :
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An amstrad PCW8256 !
it's just the computer/monitor though, I don't have the keyboard nor the stand for it, but that's still pretty cool !
Also, it has the same failure as the CPC ... oh well that's not a big deal. But that means I can't test it right now (it needs a floppy to boot)
I also found a boxed version of Heroes of Might and magic II with two CDs and some mac related books.