bluejay Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) Looking for a working 486-Pentium era laptop. Here are detailed descriptions on what I want. Minimum requirements: Working and no major missing parts that affect the functionality Floppy OR CD-ROM drive 66mhz 486 CPU TFT active matrix LCD Serial, parallel, ps/2 ports. What I want: Working flawlessly and missing no parts Pentium 133mhz CPU TFT Active Matrix LCD Serial, parallel, ps/2 ports. Any reasonably sized internal hard drive or compact flash adapter Floppy AND CD-ROM drive Working battery Sound Blaster compatible internal sound card External PS/2 mouse MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 installed Compaq, Toshiba, or IBM Obviously laptops that meet the "What I want" section more will take priority over those that don't. I'm willing to pay at maximum $75 shipped, but that depends on the specifications of the laptop. Thanks in advance! P.S. I might have forgotten to write something down on the list so please list the specs of the laptop if you are willing to sell. Thanks! FOUND Edited August 29, 2020 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 (edited) I got a 100mhz thinkpad works fine but its a bit beat up 100mhz pentium, 48 mb ram, 1.4gb hard disk active matrix lcd but its got some rot going on around the edges but its not totally gone and its not seeming to be getting worse in the 3 years I have had it floppy and 4x cd rom, but they share a bay ESS audio drive, no battery its got 98 on it now but I can put 95 ill get pictures as soon as i get the baby off my lap Edited August 24, 2020 by Osgeld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 24, 2020 Author Share Posted August 24, 2020 Pending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 Still looking for one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 It's missing the power adapter-- but there's this one on ebay right now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-Satellite-305CDS-Laptop-Retro/174347124194?hash=item2897e5fde2:g:yOIAAOSwMnJfC6Ad One of the "Generic laptop power adapter" kits from walmart would probably work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 1 minute ago, wierd_w said: It's missing the power adapter-- but there's this one on ebay right now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-Satellite-305CDS-Laptop-Retro/174347124194?hash=item2897e5fde2:g:yOIAAOSwMnJfC6Ad One of the "Generic laptop power adapter" kits from walmart would probably work. I don't much like passive matrix lcds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) I'm actually eyeing on a 3 compaq lte bundle for under $200, and reselling one or two. But still looking here for stuff in case some people have some neat stuff. Edited August 28, 2020 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) I hear you-- Active Matrix was "new and hip" back then, so getting one of what was rare bitd is going to be tough... I will see if they have any compaq armadas... Just dont expect to do fancy high color. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Armada-1592DMT-64mb-Ram-3-2Gb-HDD-Windows-98SE-12-1-Display-CDROM/133473673968?hash=item1f13a6a2f0:g:hYgAAOSwGGNfGzO6 Bam. It has active matrix. Edited August 28, 2020 by wierd_w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, wierd_w said: I hear you-- Active Matrix was "new and hip" back then, so getting one of what was rare bitd is going to be tough... I will see if they have any compaq armadas... Just dont expect to do fancy high color. I'm not looking for anything too fancy; if I were I'd just stick with my modern laptop. I'm looking for something that'll play games as well as a hard drive for my C128 using 64hdd. I mean I'd get a passive matrix laptop if it were cheap, but for $95 I'd look for one with an active matrix lcd. Edited August 28, 2020 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I used to own an armada 1530DM back in the day. Used it until it straight up died. It had a NeoMagic Magicgraph based video chipset, which could only do 2D accelleration. It could not do more than 16bit color, but WAS active matrix. I expect that linked item I put the link for above probably has similar hardware inside. As long as you are just doing old DOS games, it should be fine. As I recall, it had an ESS audiodrive based sound chip, which could do SB emulation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, wierd_w said: I used to own an armada 1530DM back in the day. Used it until it straight up died. It had a NeoMagic Magicgraph based video chipset, which could only do 2D accelleration. It could not do more than 16bit color, but WAS active matrix. I expect that linked item I put the link for above probably has similar hardware inside. As long as you are just doing old DOS games, it should be fine. As I recall, it had an ESS audiodrive based sound chip, which could do SB emulation. This is pretty much the specs for the Thinkpad osgeld offered me but he broke the hard drive cable or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Checking--- This thing has a C&T based video that can do 24bit color, up to 1024x768 (on the internal panel). It has an ESS Audiodrive 1878, which I THINK has soundblaster emulation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 Found, i found a nice Compaq LTE 5250. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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