My laptop computer lost its backlight, so it's now stuck at home with a monitor always attached. I'm now working on 1995-6 laptop, attempting to convert it to a netbook. It might work, it might not. Currently I'm in the process of finalizing an installation of Windows 2000. I had to remove the 32 MB RAM expansion extracted from another computer, as it caused the thing to constantly bluescreen, fail the memory test, and freeze for no reason. (Now I see why the Me machine it was from kept bluescreening.) I'll retrieve the original 32 MB RAM expansion that originally came with it in the morning. For now, it's very slowly booting on a mere 16 MB of RAM. The 2 GB internal hard drive will have to do for now. I could probably put some programs on a flash drive, though.

As the computer has no USB ports (well, it has some on the dock) and obviously no wireless 802.11 adaptor, I had to get a PC Card USB adaptor and a USB 802.11 adaptor, both of which are supported on Windows 2000. When I finally get it up, I'll try installing Opera 10, which is about the only modern brower to still have support on Windows OSes before XP. I may also have to use an old version of MS Office or OpenOffice, depending on which seems like it'll work better.

Wish me luck!

Good luck, and no USB ports? Thats like not having internet O:

Are you using the trackpad, or those old rollerball mices that use the old PS/2 port?

Holy balls.

Sixteen megs of RAM... A Two gig HDD... No USB ports... Windows 2000?

It's like an upgraded Macbook. D:

On a sidenote, my phone is more powerful than your laptop. >.< How sad is that.

Do yourself a favor: Save up a bone, go to a pawn shop, and buy some POS they have on display. I guarantee it's in better shape than your erm... Paperweight.

When you do start bringing it to school, bring a camera so we can take a picture of that huge machine next to my actual netbook .

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Originally Posted by Buoysel Um... you have heard of this right?

I guess if you wanted to go small you could go DSL. :/

Wow, Cat. I'm not very tech-savvy, but even I know that's and old clunker of a machine.

I assume you're just doing this for the challenge of it? I'm just too lazy to understand converting it into another device when I could just buy a new one.

Anyway, Good luck with that!

I tried Puppy and DSL on it a while back, both of them having issues. Regardless, it seems like the PC card (PCMCIA) slots didn't work and a fe, so I just returned some stuff I bought and picked up a new netbook. I'll have fun getting Windows 3.1 running on that (not really).

That's some ancient technology there.

I got curious and wanted to see if my 1.5 TB external drive would work in it. It did. Notice the nice juxtaposition with the 16 MB of RAM.

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How much hardrive space can 2000 have, before it can't recognize anymore?

I'm sure it's very little, but recognition does not mean it is unable to use said space.