Great to see someone loving one of these machines for what they are, and not gutting them for some "cyberdeck" or whatever nonsense. Beautiful machine!
Reminds me, I have to get the keyboard fixed on my Portable I!
What I own is less then 1/10th this place had. I wanted to make the pilgrimage. Just too far to be viable sadly. Crossing fingers on something similar in the midwest... :P
Take the CPU out and make sure with the level up, you try to slide it in a little more. Either that or the tab on the socket broke off. In that case, hot glue the lever down...
Noticed one for sale for a honest decent price. Almost grabbed it then realized I would never use the extra ram or RTC.
Figured someone here may have more intrest.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156144112413
Sorry, I didn't notice you were in Canada. As much as I love to have it, I'll leave it for someone in Canada as well. If you are going to scrap it, I would love the faceplate.
What do you want for the Tandon? Been looking for a full height 360k IBM branded one for my XT! Fact it tries to work.... And I can come up with something for the resistor pack.... Love a real working drive B, vs TEAC I am using now with the GoTek. Last part I need.
I have a Compaq K6-2 I got at VCF Midwest for 20 bux. Pretty fun little machines, but I wouldn't want to use XP on it. Sadly only thing dead is the cdrom (battery still holds a 20-30 min charge!). To replace it, have to take the entire machine apart, motherboard out and everything. What a crappy...
There are patches that allow up to 64gb ( Hear the 128gb patch is unstable), I dont see too much an issue...I run the 8gb patch on a Dell laptop with no issues so far, your mileage may vary.
As far as unused memory, it can still be used as virtual memory, and can even throw the pagefile on it.
I would look for laptops with Nvidia 600/700 (760M is a solid option, even plays GTAV) series gpus. Most should work well with XP, minus maybe sound drivers. So make sure to check the laptop audio chipset for audio drivers. Also something cheaper, be AMD A8 based machines.