basswipe
10-21-2007, 11:34 AM
Anybody know any good sources?Want to revamp an old Compaq laptop and use as a Ubuntu Linux machine.
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View Full Version : Source for older comp parts littles 10-22-2007, 04:08 AM my closets? LOL. I have so much stuff i don't know what to do with most of it. UserRemoved1 10-22-2007, 05:19 AM Norman there's a bunch of guys online that specialize in new old stock stuff...I had to hunt out a 386sx board last year for a cnc and built an entire computer brand new out of their stock for $500...386 :hee: Put your part into google and I bet you'll find exactly what you want for cheap... MrHunters 10-22-2007, 01:50 PM if you are thinking about using an older laptop, id look at xubuntu, it's supposed to be a lighter version for better performance on older machines. littles 10-23-2007, 02:36 AM Norman there's a bunch of guys online that specialize in new old stock stuff...I had to hunt out a 386sx board last year for a cnc and built an entire computer brand new out of their stock for $500...386 :hee: holy man. I could have gotten you a few of those for nothing unless you needed one specific board. I tossed a lot of my stuff about 6 months ago, my slowest (in parts) now is maybe a P3. I had some 286's and every variation of 386 and 486 cpu with a board, mostly Intel but some Amstrad, Via, and AMD. It was pretty cool collection but it was taking up too much space. Raven 10-23-2007, 06:48 AM Anybody know any good sources?Want to revamp an old Compaq laptop and use as a Ubuntu Linux machine. just steal a laptop from the nuclear regualtory commission with all of our most heavilly guarded military secrets on it... i hear it's really easy to do :uhuh: just kidding of course :bl: The Dad Fisherman 10-23-2007, 06:58 AM What model laptop and what are you trying to revamp.....are you just looking for memory? Katie 10-23-2007, 12:38 PM www.newegg.com - great people to deal with. MrHunters 10-23-2007, 07:37 PM Norman there's a bunch of guys online that specialize in new old stock stuff...I had to hunt out a 386sx board last year for a cnc and built an entire computer brand new out of their stock for $500...386 :hee: Put your part into google and I bet you'll find exactly what you want for cheap... what the h e double hockey sticks do you need that artifact for? i don't want to tell you that i could have built ya a new one for that basswipe 10-24-2007, 05:01 PM What model laptop and what are you trying to revamp.....are you just looking for memory? Internal CDROM drive for a Presario 2100. External drives won't load Ubuntu or Windows OSs on these machines and the stock drive is fried.Something to do with usb1.0 and the bios. UserRemoved1 10-25-2007, 06:06 PM machine was built around this MrH, it was a custom pc setup that got fried. They bastardized one leg of 220 to run the computer at 110...cept they marked the machine 220 and it was 208 which is a completely different beast. Smoke, fire, flames, holy crap. Had to rebuild the thing. what the h e double hockey sticks do you need that artifact for? i don't want to tell you that i could have built ya a new one for that MrHunters 10-25-2007, 06:56 PM oh man, that is a bad situation all around. Well, when you get it up and running can you take a picture for me. I'm pretty nostalgic over my old Packard Bell 386 ;) UserRemoved1 10-26-2007, 03:52 PM 386? Dood I had a Victor 9000..cpm based. I added a plus pc kit about 25 years ago and man that was a screaming machine it ran cpm and booted to dos 1.1...google that one :hee: That's like 15 years before a 286 :hihi: vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
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