Charcoal ("Y2Ktop")
Gateway Solo 2150 / Laptop / Acquired 29 Oct 2016
I wrote an entire blog post about this one, if you're willing to sit through the horrendous writing style I had back then.
In short, this is a laptop that an aunt+uncle gave me, alongside a broken HP laptop. I made a number of upgrades to it over the past few years, including maxing out the RAM, adding a new HDD (I tried a CF adapter to no avail), and even got it onto my home network with a PCMCIA WiFi adapter. A couple years back the hinge assembly started to fail, and nearly destroyed the display; luckily, I was able to detach it before any damage could be done (aside from a tiny bit of the front bezel cracking off). So now it's sort of a desktop computer?
It's currently the oldest/slowest Intel-based computer I own, so I like to use it to test Endless Attack REMIX in a native DOS environment. I still don't have anything that's closer to a 486, so it's a less-than-ideal solution.
- CPU: Coppermine Pentium III, 600MHz
- GPU: ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2x
- RAM: 288MB
- OS: Windows 98SE
More Pictures
- [Jul 2021] Updated BIOS splash screen.
- [Aug 2019] Another screenfetch, this time under i3wm.
- [Aug 2019] Output of screenfetch.
- [Aug 2019] Running a variant of Puppy Linux.
- [Aug 2019] Viewing Twitter via a commandline browser.
- [Jun 2019] Tweeting from Windows 2000.
- [Apr 2019] Doing some important research in Encarta.
- [Mar 2019] Running Clonezilla.
- [Mar 2019] A little fursona doodle in MSPaint.
- [Sep 2018] Running Impulse Tracker (again).
- [Sep 2017] Desktop setup, complete with a generic vaporwave wallpaper! At least I applied some dithering.
- [Sep 2017] Running Impulse Tracker.
- [Sep 2017] BIOS text.
- [Sep 2017] BIOS splash screen.
- [Sep 2017] Lid of the laptop.
- [Sep 2017] Port selection.
- [Sep 2017] Basic pic of the laptop.
- [Oct 2016] Attempting to run Windows XP.
