"Nibby" (nibby68)
06/30/2018 at 11:20 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
06/30/2018 at 11:20 • Filed to: None | 3
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Took a risk, was $30 shipped on ebay since it was untested and no charger. Found a charger for cheap and whaddya know, it works!
Pentium II 266MHz
64MB RAM
CD-ROM drive
5.1GB 4200RPM hard drive
Windows 95
13.3" 1024x768 screen
S3 ViRGE 4MB video
YAMAHA OPL3Sax sound
Built in modem
Cleaned up nicely!
The bottom has little stands to elevate the machine
Front with battery lock, reset button, volume control, indicators
Rear
Serial + VGA, audio in/out jacks, S-Video, composite, PS/2 mouse/keyboard combo jack, infrared port, power jack
Right side, has a missing piece of trim.
Modem, camera connector, CD- ROM drive
Left side
Fan, 2xUSB 1.1 ports, external floppy port, power button, cardbus slot with Xircom ethernet card installed
Xircom XE2000 network card
bottom
5.1GB 4200RPM hard drive
BIOS screen
Keyboard + nub
Installing the greatest OS ever
Booting the greatest OS ever
Desktop
Programs + system properties
Programs II + it can browse (barely)
AIDA32 system info
What’s a 90s laptop without DOOM?
yum yum shoot ‘em up
Here it is in all its glory. Ordered a CF to IDE adapter + 4GB CF card, new CMOS battery, and a 64MB stick of RAM. Fun little thing. First Toshiba owned. Keyboard is nice to type on. And of course...
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 11:27 |
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win \0/
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 11:31 |
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I’ve got an 800mhz Thinkpad up on the local Kijiji...no bites so far! :(
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1365066127
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Nibby
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/30/2018 at 11:32 |
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aww ye
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Nibby
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/30/2018 at 11:33 |
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ah, T21s are excellent retro laptops! Try listing it on eBay for a bit more to cover shipping, it should sell.
LOREM IPSUM
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 11:38 |
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Would be way more snappy with Win 3.11
For workgroups.
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Nibby
> LOREM IPSUM
06/30/2018 at 11:46 |
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I could but 95 runs very well. When the drive is replaced with a CF card and the machine gets more ram it'll be a treat
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LOREM IPSUM
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 13:08 |
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So, did setup complete in approximately 39 minutes as projected?
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Nibby
> LOREM IPSUM
06/30/2018 at 13:14 |
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Much less
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LOREM IPSUM
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 13:20 |
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I believe it. The specs on that box didn’t even exist yet in ‘95.
It's kind of like Back to the Future, only in 16 million colors.
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Nibby
> LOREM IPSUM
06/30/2018 at 13:26 |
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It’s from early 98
jkm7680
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 13:28 |
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so you joined the model m master race once more?
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LOREM IPSUM
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 13:34 |
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A bit e arlier than I would have guessed, but not by much. I was stuck on a 486 in ‘95, and was envious as hell of my friend with his 60 or so mhz Pentium Processor.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 13:43 |
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Very nice that’s quite a stack when it’s all together. We had one similar to that years ago.
I have a (last time I had it out anyway) working 486 DX4 T oshiba. It was one of the ones that had the power supply built in so it only needed an AC cord.
I bought it with dead floppy from the junk bin at a used computer store that was going out of business in 2000 for $100. I used my parallel port Zip drive to install Win95 — I’m sure that took forever and just barely fit on the drive but it runs decently.
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Nibby
> jkm7680
06/30/2018 at 14:08 |
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I have 2
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Nibby
> LOREM IPSUM
06/30/2018 at 14:09 |
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I hope you're still stuck on that 486
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Nibby
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
06/30/2018 at 14:10 |
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Awesome! Do you still have it and any chance you recall the model number? Would be a killer MSDOS rig
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LOREM IPSUM
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 14:27 |
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Unfortunately, no, none of them made it. Wish I still had that old Zeos, or the Micron that replaced it. Really wish I still had the ol IBM XT, too. Pretty sure it got let go for pretty much nothing at a garage sale in ‘94 or thereabouts. Or the PC Jr, for that matter.
I guess one can only hold onto only so much.
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jkm7680
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 14:37 |
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I have 3 fu.
One was filled with cockroaches when I got it for $5, one was broken when I got it and it was free and the other is Unicomp.
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Nibby
> jkm7680
06/30/2018 at 14:51 |
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Nice, one of mine is a unicomp as well. Use it as my daily
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Nibby
> LOREM IPSUM
06/30/2018 at 14:53 |
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Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 16:43 |
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IDKFA
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 17:29 |
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I really should put it on Ebay...my issue is shipping anything from Canada is ungodly expensive, and I never know how much to put d
own for the shipping costs...
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MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 17:53 |
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Satellite 100CS.
Dat g ood ol DB- 9 serial port.
I pulled it out just to take this pic, probably hasn’t been powered on in at least 5 years. Started right up.
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Nibby
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
06/30/2018 at 18:48 |
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shit son, that thing is awesome! should play some old games on it like day of the tentacle. thanks for sharing
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Nibby
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/30/2018 at 18:48 |
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you can just send to canada only and ask $40 +
$20 CAD for shipping
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 19:08 |
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But is anybody willing to pay $60 for an ancient laptop...?
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MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Nibby
06/30/2018 at 19:32 |
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Don’t have much time for that shenanigans anymore I’m afraid. I keep it around because there’s one piece of win 3.1/95 software I need about every 10 years.
My wife used it to write papers in seminary 2000-2003 so it probably has Wordperfect 8 or so on it too. Also I see dial up networking still has the number for the local ISP we used up to about 2001. Netscape 4 is hilarious trying to do really anything on the internet nowadays.
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Nibby
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
07/01/2018 at 08:44 |
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NETSCAPE MASTER RACE
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Nibby
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/01/2018 at 08:44 |
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yes, trust me
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Nibby
07/01/2018 at 11:55 |
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Ebay’d - Canada only...I feel like I should set it to US as well, but I imagine the shipping would go up exponentially then....
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Nibby
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/01/2018 at 12:08 |
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it would, it cost $18 for someone to send me some old apple keyboard from toronto to NY