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So my girlfriend needed a laptop for her upcoming classes and needed nothing more then to type notes and to get online. She had virtually no money and I took it upon myself to find her one. Well I found one, for $20. A Toshiba 2065cds



I had to share this because as a tech guy I laughed my ass off when I actually turned it on and looked at the specs.

Processor
AMD K6-2 366 MHz

Installed Memory
32 MB (SDRAM)

Hard Drive
4.3 GB IDE

Display
12.1 in.

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 98

 CD-Rom and 3.5 floppy!

1 USB, modem jack
It had windows 98 SE on it and luckily it came with a brand new wireless card they never got working. I took a shot in the dark and upgraded to windows 2000 and now the wireless card works like new.

So while I got the missioned accomplished, its just hilarious that this thing has lasted this long. The funny thing is the battery still holds a charge and everything runs good, meanwhile I have gone through 3 laptops in the past 3 years due to broken parts. :lol:
 
Hey, for $20, that's not entirely bad, if all she plans to do type notes on it. But does MS still patch 2000? Seems like it'd be vulnerable as heck about now.
 
Nice find man, stuff like this makes me remember the old days of 10 years ago :lol:. I don't think 2000 is still supported but it has a floppy drive so she could back up her notes incase of anything bad happening :cool:.
 
It's not terribly slow now. I did some tweaks I found on google which sped it up a little. I put office 2000 on there for her and it seems to run fine.
 
[quote name='mykevermin'](though I had an Apple IIgs before that, and remember a 512kb RAM card larger than most high-end video cards these days. Thing was the size of a fuckin' Volkswagen).[/QUOTE]

I can touch my grandfathers Apple II+ from here if I stretch really hard, and both AppleDisc drives work and the floppies are still all good. Its got the 48k RAM expander board installed too.
BOW DOWN! Mac...pfeh thats like...JETSONS technology compared to this old crate.

Even better, the case has started to yellow! Abbondanza!

The manual, which I have...isn't like the manuals of today.......is more like an electrical schematic. The frickin thing came with a CHIP PULLING device for when your individual 1K RAM chips went bad, you could pop em out and replace em. And to think, getting those pirated game discs to run was what got me into my career today....frickin awesome white collar crime FTW!
 
Man. The first computer I regularly did assignments on was a Commodore Pet. I still remember feeding cassette tapes into that thing.
 
Looks perfect for what she needs it for.

I just bought my girlfriend a new laptop, at least I got a good deal on it but not $20.00 good. :lol:
 
[quote name='plasticbathmonki']Hey, for $20, that's not entirely bad, if all she plans to do type notes on it. But does MS still patch 2000? Seems like it'd be vulnerable as heck about now.[/quote]

Who has security concerns about a $20 computer? I keep the super secret bomb plans in my underroos, myself.
 
[quote name='Sideswiper']Who has security concerns about a $20 computer? I keep the super secret bomb plans in my underroos, myself.[/quote]

Ha! As long as you keep the under-roos on you at all times, then all is safe. But if you find a spook digging through your underwear drawer, then the jig is up and you have to run!
 
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