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post #21 of 60
7/5/05 at 3:44am
Either put it to good use as a server or recycle it. If not I might be interested in buying it.
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post #22 of 60
7/5/05 at 4:22am
that would make a GREAT door stop... or you could put it in the garage so you know when you stop your car :grin:
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post #23 of 60
7/5/05 at 12:32pm
Thread Starter 
well, i do have 1 issue to resolve first. i did not get a charger, and i don't know what condition the battery is in. The laptop was my brother's girlfriend's dad's work computer back in the day when they were "new", he is in that business. They were cleaning the house yesterday to prepare it for some slightl remodeling work (paint, carpets, cabinets) and they dug this thing up.
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post #24 of 60
7/5/05 at 12:35pm
Hmm, unless you buy a charger, it seems like it is indeed a doorstop. I still say you should take the screen and put it in your car.
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post #25 of 60
7/5/05 at 4:07pm
Yeah, mod it somehow. I saw somewhere someone made a bathroom news & weather ticker out of an old laptop.
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post #26 of 60
7/5/05 at 11:03pm
The battery in that will probably be dead. The one in mine hold NO charge whatsoever.
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post #27 of 60
7/8/05 at 9:47pm
Thread Starter 
Hey.

I figured out that the charger from my T23 will work with this thing. So I updated the ram from 32 to 96mb, also installed a 10gb hard drive instead of the stock 3gb one. Then i ran a bios update to the latest version and it was time to install an os.


EDIT:
Mepis didn't work, but i got PC-BSD to boot. It is installing. Keeping fingers crossed for the best
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post #28 of 60
7/8/05 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by ramificatio
Let it run SETI@Home till it dies...
I kinda like this idea, although it take it month to do a single unit...
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post #29 of 60
7/8/05 at 11:13pm
yes, lol. For old computers, almost always, the best use is to make some kind of server from them (almost, because even a print/storage server you can buy for cheap. and it's just a small box, not a brick)..... so, let's see how abf is going with his pc-bsd...'

edit: wow, is this good quality of what?

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Originally Posted by (IBM page)
(2635-5AU)
SVGA / 640 x 480 or 800 x 600
Dual scan / FRSTN / 150 ms / 70 nits 65,536 sim colors / 35 to 1 contrast
(2635-6AU, 2635-7AU)
SVGA / 640 x 480 or 800 x 600
Active Matrix TFT / 75 ms / 100 nits 65,536 simultaneous colors / 100 to 1 contrast ratio
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post #30 of 60
7/9/05 at 1:01am
Thread Starter 
alright well....BSD installed but its not booting, the bootloader give me "kernel not found"


and btw i did a battery test: 0h 0m 0s

anyone know of any oses that will boot on that thing?

i tried and failed:
WinXP Pro SP2
Win2k Server
WinME
Win2k3 Server
Ubuntu Linux
Kubuntu Linux
Mepis Linux
PC-BSD (based on FreeBSD 5.4)
Suse 9.3
Yoper 2.0
Kanoppix
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post #31 of 60
7/9/05 at 1:40am
Dude, no, none of the above! Here's what you need to do:

Install MS-DOS, that's right, go old-school. Then, track down classic games that were dos-only, like Crusader: No Remorse (and No Negret), or Quest for Glory IV, an awesome adventure game by Sierra (a little buggy, but if you can work around the bugs it is a GEM).
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post #32 of 60
7/9/05 at 2:15am
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well, with 0 battery life and a lack of EVERYTHING, i think my choices are down to nothing. i am just gonna donate it to Salvation Army or something.....
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post #33 of 60
7/9/05 at 12:06pm
? it actually works?

with that being that thick, how big is the harddrive? 3.5 or the standard lappy drives?

I just got a IBM Thinkpad T23 2647MS1 PIII 1Ghz, Im in the same spot ur in....
mines a spanish keyboard tho; left shift key and right enter key are soooo small. Im ordering another keyboard for it tho off ebay, I used to repair Compaq lappys...

Should I sell it for about $300 - $500 or get back into linux with it and make it my programming lappy............................
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post #34 of 60
7/9/05 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by abf
So I am sitting in my room doing stuff on my sleek last-year model 258kao, and then my bro comes in and dropped an IBM Thinkpad 380 on me.

here some specs:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...e=&subtype=All

ugh....lol....what do i do with this brick?
1.125 MB GPU! Try running 3DMark'05!
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post #35 of 60
7/9/05 at 3:10pm
Thread Starter 
i would try it if i could get an OS installed, every single OS installer failed, UGH!

Anyway...yeah, the brick works as a desknote, not a notebook though.

My T23 is 2647-MG3 with 1.133 P3, 1gb ram, english keyboard, 40gb 5400rpm hard drive and i have both floppy and cd-rw/dvd ultrabay2000 drives. fantstic little lappy. it should be excellent as a linux box, it really should be. Although I am required to run WinXP Pro on mine because technically this is my moms computer....i am just the main user...long story.


The hard drive on the 380DX.....originally it was the 3.5, but i swapped it for a 10gb. I also upped the ram from 32 to 96mb
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post #36 of 60
7/9/05 at 4:29pm
edo, simms, sodimm?

I got an Idea. Get some friends and a camcorder, leave it at a mall or really popular place, and see if anybody will try to steal it! Confront them and tell em its yours and you got em on camera!
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post #37 of 60
7/9/05 at 4:47pm
wrap it in a few hundred firecrackers, strap a few fireworks to it, pour gas all over it, hook up long fuse, launch; or the military is always looking for objects to test sniper rifles and precision bombs on.

Really, I would donate it to someone/thing.
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post #38 of 60
7/9/05 at 4:49pm
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Originally Posted by MitchellO
I have one of these.



Its sooooo thick! Runs 98SE ok though. I used it for 2 weeks when my i5100 (before my 8600 in the pic) was in for repair. Got WiFi going, Firefox, Email, MSN and Word going. Had to wait about 5 mins for it to startup, but it was better than nothing! Still have it actually...
Good God that is thick! Measure?
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post #39 of 60
7/9/05 at 5:17pm
Thread Starter 
The ram is EDO.

i dont have a ruler handly to take a measure but looking at it from profile, it is almost 2x as thick as my T23
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post #40 of 60
7/9/05 at 5:22pm
Did you try a stage 1 Gentoo install yet?
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