Here are the links to the picturs of the laptop as follows...

picture 1

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/justinbarrow/Laptop1.jpg

picture 2

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/justinbarrow/Laptop2.jpg

if i got hold of the cd rom drive for this laptop, does this just slot into the same place where the current floppy drive is?

Cheers.

I think they do (dredges dim and dark memories).

Will be a good little lappy for £20 when you've got it running.

Yup it'll fit where the floppy is. I've just pm'd you about posting my drive up to you.

Not bad for that money - was just hoping you'd not been fleeced

Think I have a compatible CD drive too, but might be buried somewhere. These were available with CD drives from new, but you have to remember with the age of them, floppies were still quite widely used, so being able to swap between the two was handy. Dell also offered an external caddy, for drives to plug into.

What OS is running on it at the moment? If it's 95/98, you'll need to provide drivers for each USB device you plug in - dead handy

Steve

Yup it'll fit where the floppy is. I've just pm'd you about posting my drive up to you.

Cheers for helping me out with the drive - much apriciated

Not bad for that money - was just hoping you'd not been fleeced

What OS is running on it at the moment? If it's 95/98, you'll need to provide drivers for each USB device you plug in - dead handy

Steve

When its been slightly updated it should be ok - I got sorted with a Drive thanks to Auroan so i am hoping to put xp on it, but then thinking of 2000 quite a few people say it wont hog as many system resources.

Just picked up a 20Gb hard drive for it for £5 (bit of a step up from the 4gb it had) I have also got hold of 2 sticks of 256mb of pc100 ram from a guy on the local market for £10 so its on 512mb now

with the wireless card i got i have about £45 all in, as soon as i get the drive i can install stuff which a few days ago thought would never be possible.

Thanks guys for the help.

I've just found an identical laptop in a cardboard box at work. Got a Win2k COA sticker on it and a CD rom as well as a floppy drive, unfortunately it appears to be dead as it won't turn on.

I still maintain you'd be better off with a correctly configured, slimmed down XP sp3 than win2k. I've had xp run on 64MB, now that is painful. With 128MB it's ok for simple tasks. 256MB, you're fine and with 384MB you're flying. XP boots faster than 2k too.

do you think it will be ok for you tube clips when i get it up and running just thinking about the massive 8mb onboard ati graphics

cheers

For basic video, normal YouTube clips included, you should be fine

Steve

try a linux install - latest ubuntu (9.04) should work pretty well on that spec - I have just put it onto a 256mb celeron lappy which I was given as a 'you can have it if oyu fix it' - runs nicely for basic stuff (open office, firefox etc) and means I can surf on that, whilst my pc munches away with lightroom and photoshop...

You can always mount whichever OS disk you want using a virtual cd drive using Alcohol120%.

Install 120%* on the laptop, make an iso image of the OS disk and load it onto the laptop's HD using ausb key and follw the instructions on 120% to find and "mount" the image.

If the RAM can be increase, XP should run fine, I used it on 333Mhz PC's and they actually ran faster than on 98se.

* If Alcohol120% does not support Win98, look around for a similar program, or older version that does.