UNTESTED as it's literally just been delivered and still very cold having spent the night in the courier companies warehouse - once it's climatised I shall confirm that it powers on and install a Hard Disk Drive and install an OS...
Friday 4 January 2019
Compaq Armada M700 PIII 850MHz 192MB RAM
Another Compaq laptop to add to my (ever growing) collection of Retro Computers:
UNTESTED as it's literally just been delivered and still very cold having spent the night in the courier companies warehouse - once it's climatised I shall confirm that it powers on and install a Hard Disk Drive and install an OS...
UNTESTED as it's literally just been delivered and still very cold having spent the night in the courier companies warehouse - once it's climatised I shall confirm that it powers on and install a Hard Disk Drive and install an OS...
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