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(Off-topic) best vintage laptop?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 5:54 pm
by nonanon
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...
Re: (Off-topic) best vintage laptop?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 12:45 pm
by cbmeeks
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
Re: (Off-topic) best vintage laptop?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:22 pm
by BigEd
Nowhere near 100MHz, but very retro, and runs DOS -
Atari's Portfolio
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
Re: (Off-topic) best vintage laptop?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:15 am
by JasonRP
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.