NathanAllan
Veteran Member
On the off chance that I would find something, I stopped in at the local Salvation Army. There sat an old laptop, in pretty good shape, and it is an Epson ActionNote C500 with charger and small zipper case. $5!
One of the hooks on the screen is broken, looks intentional for one-handed opening, and the screen was flickering, maybe signs of the inverter going out (?) but otherwise in pretty good shape! It booted up on the counter to Win95, showed 4mb ram and a 120mb hard drive.
No expansion options, no pcmcia or even a dock port(parallel and rs-232 only). Here is an idea I had for a while now: use an SD-44-pin IDE adapter and see if I can make it see an OS on the SD card.
It's not a high-dollar collectible machine, so I don't feel very bad modding it up. I was also thinking of a screen upgrade, since the prices for LCD and LED screens have gone down, might be a great candidate for a neat retro-fit of something newer.
For now it'll be on the back burner, work is taking up a lot of my time.
On a side note, got an Apple G4 tower, mirror doors, for $30 with bad USB ports, it might get fixed, it's been nearly maxed out as far as upgrades.
One of the hooks on the screen is broken, looks intentional for one-handed opening, and the screen was flickering, maybe signs of the inverter going out (?) but otherwise in pretty good shape! It booted up on the counter to Win95, showed 4mb ram and a 120mb hard drive.
No expansion options, no pcmcia or even a dock port(parallel and rs-232 only). Here is an idea I had for a while now: use an SD-44-pin IDE adapter and see if I can make it see an OS on the SD card.
It's not a high-dollar collectible machine, so I don't feel very bad modding it up. I was also thinking of a screen upgrade, since the prices for LCD and LED screens have gone down, might be a great candidate for a neat retro-fit of something newer.
For now it'll be on the back burner, work is taking up a lot of my time.
On a side note, got an Apple G4 tower, mirror doors, for $30 with bad USB ports, it might get fixed, it's been nearly maxed out as far as upgrades.