Picked up at a local car boot sale for £10, no leads though
Looks suspiciously like my HP Omnibook 3000, I imagine the power supply is compatible. From looking at the specs online, it looks almost identical although it appears to have a 266MHz Pentium II processor rather than the 233MHz Pentium II in the HP
Model label, this is a Inspiron 3200 D266XT
Front
Rear
Left side
Close up of the PCMCIA slots with cards in, and audio sockets
Right side with battery and CD ROM drives removed
I'm sure it's the same battery and CD ROM as the HP
So similar
Keyboard close up
LCD screen and Windows sticker, I hope it has Windows 98 installed
RAM slots, only one is used, there is 16MB of on board RAM, just like the HP version
Only label visible for the hard disc, the HP can only use one specific hard disc in one of two capacities, don't know if the Dell is the same
These are the cards that were installed, I already have the modem card
But not the MPEG2 card
They are almost exactly the same
I'll test the Omnibook first, just to make sure it still works
Yes it does work
Swap the power lead over and yes, there's life in the old machine
The hard disc sounds unhappy and is not listed in the POST summary screen
Swap in the hard disc from the Omnibook
It's booting...
Looks good
An old version of Pupply Linux has booted
the system info screen from within Puppy Linux
This is the hard disc from the Dell, 6490MB! The Omnibook claims it can only support one particular hard disc in either 2GB, or 4GB
I tried the disc again and it's dead Jim
?FORMULA TOO COMPLEX ERROR