im looking to get a couple vintage laptops to play around with, early cdrom drive or zip, but must include floppy disk drive as well. i wanna put win95 and or win3.1 on them. im thinking old ibm thinkpad, or compaq conturas. in b4 "just emulate" in b4 "why?" in b4 "youre wasting your money" no, i want to reminisce about the good old days. if anyone has any old vintage laptops hanging around, give me a price if you wanna sell!
oh just give me a brand and spec that you want.. we have a ton at work.. ton as in probably 50+ just sitting to get looked at
lol, customers laptops? lol. well, im talking in the 286/386/486/133mhz-200mhz range. floppy disk, cd drive is good, ethernet is good, but doubt any old lappys will have that, 16mb-64mb ram, MB hdd, etc etc. basically OLD ass shit.
NEC had the Versa line which was pretty pimp back then. Or try to get an old ivory Toshiba no less than 3 inches thick (closed).
well, im already a vintage electronics collector, so i'd like to have a few old working laptops or pc's to have in my collection. a good win3.1 laptop, a win95, or possible a nice win98se vintage desktop install all the popular applications or games on them for their time period, and just let em sit and collect dust in case i feel like playing some genuine nostalgic games or somethin.
we have 1 i think.. but it has issues.. if you want it i can probably swipe it when no ones in the warehouse its those old black ones with the little ball as a mouse
I had a laptop identical to this when my parents were going through their divorce: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-THINKPA...ptops_Nov05&hash=item1e6377e9c6#ht_756wt_1037 My mom basically gave it to me to hide the fact that she bought it to use herself to cheat on my dad. It actually worked quite well, and I got a lot of use out of it. It was very slow, but had a 56k modem, CD-rom, floppy drive, and a tiny joystick style mouse in the center of the keyboard. That thing had to be at least 3" thick, and was slow as hell. It also had hellish ghosting on the screen, and would show tails even when playing Doom! I used to play old Southpark games on that laptop back in the first and second seasons of the show. I loved it! ~Will Courtier~
Oh, also. My laptop had an external CD-Rom drive. I can't remember the interface, I think that it was something unique to the laptop. It was slow as SHIT, but worked nonetheless! ~Will Courtier~
I had this feeling, but then I just installed Warcraft 2 inside my Virtualbox instance of Windows XP and it works :-D
in b4 funkgab gets fired pm me bro with info and prices, if these are abandoned laptops (that work) ppl are wanting waaaayy too much on ebay for these old vintage laptops, like theyre getting more valuable for some reason?
