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It's sort of cool. The monitor (which is nothing but a relogoed VT220T) needs a pair of filter caps for the power supply, as it's got some screen roll, but nothing bad, especially.
And re floppies: occasionally re-reading a college paper is a humbling experience. The papers are grammatically and syntactically correct, but gah it took a long time to express something simple.
Hey, I had a DEC Rainbow.
t High fives Matt
any one need a Dec Rainbow?
I need to retrieve it from San Diego but I still have a C/PM computer with an 8" floppy drive that is in a plywood case. It was still working last time I checked but that was quite a few years ago.
(yes, I actually still have this. Don't know why.)
OK, I don't have anything that old. But. I am purging. I will say, as I've been digging through old papers, I found the receipt for the Apple 5300c that I am getting ready to toss. Shocking! I paid $4,500 for it! Imagine what kind of laptop you could get for that much today! So ya, I think it's safe to say computer prices have come WAY down.
Omnis, try searching for BootCamp1.4.dmg maybe one of the torrent places (or, god forbid, a traditional site) has an active copy for download.Good call! I have downloaded it. Upon opening it, it promptly tells me "Boot Camp beta has expired. OK"
So I dial back the date on the clock to see if that trick works. It starts to! It installed the Boot Camp Ass't utility. But once I open that, it says something about my internal drive needs to be reformatted to one partion in Extended (Journaled)... which it already is.
:: head - desk ::
Not tonight.
Anyone have a clue, short of backing up everything and wiping the drive?
Um-
If I were looking for a really cheap laptop to have in my house, go on-line and perhaps use word and excel occasionally, would this do? Could I possibly find one cheaper?
It has Vista on it, so I think at only 2G of ram it will be really slow for you.
Sophia, I bought almost the same thing back in December for $900, and I'm pretty happy with it, even with only 2GB RAM. The most graphics-intensive thing I do with it is play DVDs and streaming video MS Flight Simulator, and it works fine for that.
The major differences between my P205 and the one shown in that ad is that mine has the Intel processors and a web cam. The AMD version at the time was priced at about $750, so the price you are seeing now is 1/3 off for the refurb. and the march of time.
You can probably get more machine for the money if you settle for a 15" screen. I wanted the 17" screen because the 15" screen with the wide aspect ratio has no more vertical room than my old 14" Sony. One penalty to the larger size is the weight -- more than 7 lbs. One advantage -- I like the full size keyboard, with the separate number pad.