The link will take you to an eBay auction but I'm not the seller, I'm
the winning bidder and the auction has closed already. I'd appreciate
any clues as to what it is.
Many thanks,
Steve

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WIDSCREEN-NOTE...QQcmdZViewItem

OK, the link bit didn't work, sorry about that.
The eBay item number is 110122813542

Steve wrote:
Well it's an old Pentium 266 that might be worth 1/4 of what you paid
for it, excluding shipping. Probably has Windows 3.1 on it. Don't try
any recent operating system as it will be too slow for anything. Might
even be too slow to play MP3 or AVI.

Ian Singer

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Well it's an old Pentium 266 that might be worth 1/4 of what you paid
for it, excluding shipping. Probably has Windows 3.1 on it. Don't try
any recent operating system as it will be too slow for anything.
Might
even be too slow to play MP3 or AVI.

Yes, I probably did pay too much for it but I knew the rough spec
before I bid and it looks ideal for what I want it for.
It's only for writting text docs on, not for playing Half Life.
Besides, looking at the screen, I doubt very much that it is running
Win 3.1.

The red trackpoint and external floppy look very IBM Thinkpad but the
display looks less so...

It's old anyway... ;-)

Guy

Steve wrote:

U will run successfully Windows 2000 and Office on Pentium 266.
MP3 will nor make problems too.
U can play even DivX avi if the codec is properly configured.
GA.




Ian Singer wrote:

Thanks Guys, but what I really need is a clue as to what it is if
anyone knows.
Cheers,
Steve

On May 11, 9:02 am, Steve <Steve.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
I can tell you what it's NOT.

IBM--- it has a stick mouse, but IBMs in this generation don't have a
windows key.
DELL -- wrong color/shape
SONY-- wrong color/shape
TOSHIBA-- they all had trackpads
Compaq-- wrong shape, and they all have trackpads.

I see by the screen image that it has Windows ME installed.

The not very clear sticker on the upper left of the screen says
designed for windows 95. (I can't read the actual text, but i've seen
that sticker before)

I think perhaps this is a TI, one of the last. You'll know when you
get it. TIs were good units at the time.

The remaining possibility is fujitsu.

Pentium 266's are powerful enough to run XP. Not well, but they run it.
They are fast for running 98SE.


Ian Singer wrote:

Am 11 May 2007 09:40:42 -0700 schrieb paulmd@efn.org:

Once you get it it might be useful to start the ultimate boot cd to test
the machine, identify the hardware installed - and potentially find out
more about the manufacturer:
<http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/>

And the typical red long mouse buttons are missing as well.

Design is to "boring" for a Sony.

My Toshiba 8100 had no touchpad, but a pointing stick as well. So it could
well be a Toshiba.

As far as I can see the last series of TI Extensa all had touchpads. This
one would fit the specs in terms of processor speed, but not in screen
size:
http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/...1te_specs.html
So I doubt that it's a TI.
By the way - it's impressive that Acer still provides an archive with
drivers for these old machines - you don't usually get that.

Andreas

Andreas Schulze-Bäing wrote:


Interesting. Can I use the network boot ppart to hook up my DOS machine,
with a NIC, to my XP machine so that the XP can see the DOS and share
files with it. Looks like it but not sure?

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Am Fri, 11 May 2007 18:01:03 -0400 schrieb Ian Singer:

I guess that should be possible - but have not tried it myself. Have a look
at this site:
<http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/>
Especially the tools TinyHost and TinyClient seem to provide what you look
for: <http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/#faq55>
This NetWare Boot Disk is contained on the Ultimate Boot CD, but can of
course also be run separately from a floppy.
This site might be useful as well... <http://www.bootdisk.com/>

Andreas

On May 11, 1:52 pm, Andreas Schulze-Bäing <mib...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dell and IBM both do, down to pentium 1. Dell provides specs on 486
laptops, though not drivers (which is usually fine, win98 has drivers
included for most 486 era stuff ).

On May 11, 6:48 am, Steve <Steve.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, at first glance it looks to me a lot like an IBM with a replaced
screen, or perhaps just a bad camera angle changing the reflective hue
of the display? Except... the photo, viewed under zoom, looks more
like the lower case is the same grey as the upper, just enshadowed.
I've seen Toshibas that have much of this appearance, but without the
red IBM clit... I'd guess then that if it is all-original that it's a
Winbook or such, one of the smaller names, that basically assembled
commodity parts. The photo blurs (without running enhancements)
before I can make out if the floppy is IBM or Toshiba, but at a guess
I'd go with Toshiba (from the shape of its front). The external CD is
a mystery to me--maybe third party?

Once you have it, I'd check the boot splash screen & BIOS. Beyond
that, a utility such as Sandra or Everest (Evergreen? Something like
that.) should tell you actual components.

If it's an IBM, I've had excellent luck with Damn Small Linux. Linux
Format and Linux Journal have both had articles on getting laptops'
special function keys to work, when they would require drivers under
Windows, but on the IBM laptops I've used, the Function keys have been
rooted into the laptop's BIOS so there was no need for hacks--it all
works, all the time. I have one IBM loaned to a friend for travel,
266 MHz Pentium MMX, 128 MB/10GB/CD-ROM that was astoundingly fast
with Damn Small Linux 3.01 (compared with my experiences of similar
hardware running W98, W2K), and no problem with modem, ethernet,
sound, or USB--it all worked without modification.