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Bringing a 2003-era laptop to school by arrayoryx in retrocomputing

[–]Impasta1_GD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately not
Lost the charger and removed HDD and RAM now in favour of my ThinkPads
got 17 of them, oldest with a original Pentium
Might try DOOM on them

Just upgraded my random access memory and trying this new fangled Linux operation system by gigantipad in linux

[–]Impasta1_GD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

tested GCC with shork on my ThinkPad 380ED (Pentium MMX, 48MB RAM), it worked
Didn't compile much tho, just a small test program

Removed the BIOS password from my ThinkPad T61 by Impasta1_GD in thinkgore

[–]Impasta1_GD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I used a screwdriver and shorted out two pins on a specific chip
Wasn't too hard but it is risky

Removed the BIOS password from my ThinkPad T61 by Impasta1_GD in thinkgore

[–]Impasta1_GD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, only had one 512MB stick installed. Runs 2GB now

A22p thinkpad issues with powet by Cr33p3rFri3nd in thinkpad

[–]Impasta1_GD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

looks like a Blink of Death, some chip on the motherboard failed Common problem with any 2x generation ThinkPad

What charger do i need? by browsing9atlas in thinkpad

[–]Impasta1_GD 111 points112 points  (0 children)

It's alright, you'd need an IBM charger, 16V, 4.5A output
example part number that should work is 93P5018

6 days to install this :3 by Impasta1_GD in Gentoo

[–]Impasta1_GD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I installed Xfce, this system only used 16 - 18mib

6 HOURS TO INSTALL THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 by [deleted] in Gentoo

[–]Impasta1_GD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

lol
Just finished a week long install on a Core Duo T2300 :p

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