+Warwagon MVC Posted September 30, 2020 MVC Share Posted September 30, 2020 Gateway Solo PII 300 Recently acquired for free a Gateway Solo Laptop. In January 1999 It retailed for $2,799. Look at how thick it is and look all the IO on the back of it. It’s a Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM. It weighs in at 8.8 lbs. I current have a Transcend 16GB 2.5" PATA SLC Industrial Solid State Disk TS16GSSD25-S in it. Picked that SSD up in 2009 for $157 goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted September 30, 2020 Global Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2020 What are you going to use it for? Home defense? jnelsoninjax and freedonX 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted September 30, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted September 30, 2020 Just now, Jim K said: What are you going to use it for? Home defense? Nothing at the moment. the SSD does have Windows 98 installed. Sadly the trident graphics card doesn't have very good, if any opengl support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2020 What's that long connector on the back? right next to the parallel port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted September 30, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted September 30, 2020 10 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said: What's that long connector on the back? right next to the parallel port? I’m not sure maybe some sort of dock connector goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedonX Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 20 minutes ago, warwagon said: I’m not sure maybe some sort of dock connector Some say it's needed for time travel, sadly the main components stopped working with the Y2K bug +hedleigh and Mindovermaster 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 minute ago, freedonX said: Some say it's needed for time travel, sadly the main components stopped working with the Y2K bug The Tardis have one? freedonX 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnelsoninjax Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 30/09/2020 at 16:37, Jim K said: What are you going to use it for? Home defense? Some people defend their homes with guns, others use swords/knives, but a thief breaks into @warwagon 's house, he protects his house with an old GW2K laptop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted October 2, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2020 57 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said: Some people defend their homes with guns, others use swords/knives, but a thief breaks into @warwagon 's house, he protects his house with an old GW2K laptop! Well, he could use that as a shield. Those things are rather thick... jnelsoninjax 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) On 30/09/2020 at 16:38, warwagon said: Nothing at the moment. the SSD does have Windows 98 installed. Sadly the trident graphics card doesn't have very good, if any opengl support. Does it have that problem where it shuts down to fast when its installed on an SSD? Later in 98's lifespan, hardware was getting so fast that the OS wouldn't shut down properly, triggering a scandisk next boot so they introduced a patch to throttle the shutdown sequence on 98SE. Not sure it vanilla 98 was affected or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 3, 2020 Author MVC Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 01/10/2020 at 21:14, JustGeorge said: Does it have that problem where it shuts down to fast when its installed on an SSD? Later in 98's lifespan, hardware was getting so fast that the OS wouldn't shut down properly, triggering a scandisk next boot so they introduced a patch to throttle the shutdown sequence on 98SE. Not sure it vanilla 98 was affected or not. Actually that might explain why I want to do a scan disk on start up sometimes LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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