11 Sep
1998
11 Sep
'98
3:47 p.m.
Jason Willgruber wrote:
I'm looking for an old IBM or Compaq Portable (or
any other that the
motherboard can be replaced with a standard one (especially the IBM). I'm
looking for a fairly speedy portable, because of the program that I use
(needs a 486).I have an old 486/66 board that I can use, but I don't feel
like spending $700 for a portable case w/display. I'd be willing to trade
a VGA or an EGA monitor for it, or be willing to pay a fair (ly low) price
(since I won't be using much of the guts, anyway.
Well, I'd offer the relatively gutted Compaq portable I got free at
the last Trenton festival, but I'm sort of in the middle of building
a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 into the beast. (The 8088 board is a wall
decoration, wasn't worth fixing).
--
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When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright