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IBM 380XD came in the mail today,,no kidding
Yep ,just got a blast from the past delivered today
I.B.M. think pad 380XD with g-e-n-u-i-n-e intell pentium mmx inside my intention is to have fun with it and use it as a "legacy" machine for e-mailing and news surfing and the occasional "loaner laptop" now heres where i could use some help, I really want to upgrade it to the max . how biggerfasterbetter can i make it? where do i get upgrade parts for something so old? since it wasn't intended for windows ME, where can i find some windows NT or95 to re-install? the power supply i can dig up on my own. This is gonna be a blast to fool around with. I will keep you posted |
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05-22-2007, 11:29 PM
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Re: IBM 380XD came in the mail today,,no kidding
What are the exact specs on the machine?
The most you can realistically hope to upgrade are the hard drive and the RAM, but that can do a lot for an old machine. I'd check out Linux if you haven't already- there are some slim but very capable distributions that run well on old hardware.
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05-23-2007, 12:24 AM
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Re: IBM 380XD came in the mail today,,no kidding
Hello fox, thanks for the speedy reply
 heres the specs(I think) 32mb ram,2gb hard drive ,233 MHZ pentium MMX. and of course the win. ME realy slows it way down. I am totaly un familliar with linux. so what would you reccomend? stay tuned folks,this is gonna be fun. -edit,change of plan- I am going to give this one to a guy who could realy use it. Last edited by newnewbie; 05-23-2007 at 12:50 AM. Reason: Change of Plans |
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05-23-2007, 03:24 PM
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Re: IBM 380XD came in the mail today,,no kidding
I would wipe Windows and put DSL on it. Anything else will be very slow.
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