Been looking for a laptop to play with low-level programming on... I'd like something running ~100mhz with a simple enough design for a newbie to understand, but complex enough to run a "real" os like win 3.1 or at least dos. So far my top choices are

The Toshiba libretto

The gateway handbook

The ti travelmate

The hp omnibook

Anyone here got a fave legacy laptop?

Btw sorry about the flood today, my car broke lol...

This is a good video that may answer your question.

It's about finding a good DOS gaming laptop and he covers quite a bit. Might be useful as he mentions a few models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2v7k-wAm2E

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Personally I got good use out of a Psion 3, but it's a quite different OS and programming environment, and not self-hosted.

Toshiba's T1000 series looks quite good, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100

I always liked these IBM Thinkpad 760 series laptops, although they are getting really dated now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Thi ... SwGeBXPz6Q

I used to have a few 760ELs, and had linux running on one.

Actually, the much newer T40 series is now fairly inexpensive:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Thinkpad-T4 ... SwMmBV4UvX

I liked the old Thinkpads, because they made a gazillion of them, and therefore there are alot around for parts, or just being sold cheap in general. Good docs availability, specs available, drivers available, etc.

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