There is an operating system on this machine although I forgot which one.... I know it is Slackware, but what
version? 11?
I gave the machine to my cousin Arnold Geerts. Hope it's still alive... :o)
Dell laptop : Latitude CPx J650
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Aquired | This was the first Dell laptop I bought via Marktplaats. I bought it in Tilburg from a guy who wanted to buy a newer one. He showed me the machine working with Windows 98. He told about one battery being not so good. He forgot to tell about the dead CD ROM drive. |
| CPU | Intel Mobile Pentium III, 650 MHz |
| RAM | The machine has a bigger memory bay so it will accept any size 144 pin SO-DIMM SDRAM boards. As is, the machine had 384 MB of memory. Later on the 256 MB module died. |
| OS | As is the 650 was equipped with Windows 97 or something. I removed it for something better. |
| Harddisk | 4 GB 2.5" harddisk |
| Addons | The machine came with the base unit, two batteries (one good), broken CDR unit, FDD and power supply. |
| Price | € 150 |
The broken CDR unit
This was not a very easy fault to discover. Thee CDR unit would read the first half o each CD flawlessly. And then it started to introduce random read errors. The CD's performed well in other units so I decided to repair the unit.
I looked around for affordable Dell CDR units but these were not available. So I bought a cheap laptop CD drive at an Ebay auction (€1 for the drive, €6 for shipping), removed the old drive and adapted the CDR bay to fit the new Compaq laptop CD drive.
Operating system
There is an operating system on this machine although I forgot which one.... I know it is Slackware, but what
version? 11?
I gave the machine to my cousin Arnold Geerts. Hope it's still alive... :o)
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