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10-21-2007, 11:34 AM
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Source for older comp parts
Anybody know any good sources?Want to revamp an old Compaq laptop and use as a Ubuntu Linux machine.
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10-22-2007, 04:08 AM
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my closets? LOL. I have so much stuff i don't know what to do with most of it.
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10-22-2007, 05:19 AM
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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 
Put your part into google and I bet you'll find exactly what you want for cheap... |
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10-22-2007, 01:50 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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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.
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10-23-2007, 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
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 |
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. |
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10-23-2007, 06:48 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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yep
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Originally Posted by basswipe
Anybody know any good sources?Want to revamp an old Compaq laptop and use as a Ubuntu Linux machine.
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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 
just kidding of course  |
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10-23-2007, 06:58 AM
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What model laptop and what are you trying to revamp.....are you just looking for memory?
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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10-23-2007, 12:38 PM
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Scuttlebutt
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Westport,MA
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www.newegg.com - great people to deal with.
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Wasajigifying -[ was - a - jig-i-fy-ing] - the concept of not knowing what the hell your saying.
My Photography Page!
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10-23-2007, 07:37 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
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
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 |
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10-24-2007, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
What model laptop and what are you trying to revamp.....are you just looking for memory?
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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. |
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10-25-2007, 06:06 PM
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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.
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Originally Posted by MrHunters
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
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10-25-2007, 06:56 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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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  |
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10-26-2007, 03:52 PM
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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
That's like 15 years before a 286  |
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