My 3lectr1cal Conquests!

[3lectr1cPPC]

Thanks - it really is nice to have it back

I’ll still send the cable at some point - I do have enough parts to built 2, just need to do some plastic repairs. Would be nice for that second one to also have the 800x600 screen

 

[jmacz]

Congrats!!!

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Thanks @jmacz - I'll have to put your hinge mount replacements to work sometime soon to build a second one out of the parts I have!

So what is your laptop collecting approach or maybe put another way what goals do you have for your collection?

Missed this earlier, sorry about that. My main "approach" would be mainly just to try to find laptops that are unique in some way, whether it be a design element, some problem they have, being just an in general great laptop, a whole number of reasons. I generally try not to keep more boring ones around - if there isn't much interesting about it, and if it's just mediocre in performance for its time, I probably won't be after it.
My main goals are to pick up some of the laptops that are likely going to become near impossible to find working in a few years time, so, ones that have VARTA clock batteries in them right over their motherboards. Stuff like the Toshiba Satellite 430CDT, the WinBook XP (although the ship may have already sailed on that one), the PowerBook 2400c, and a whole bunch of others.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I actually also did something I don’t normally do but really should start doing when I have projects like these - I reassembled the parts unit as well. Too often I just throw the parts in a bin where they take up more space.

This one will be fixed eventually. This set of plastics is too far gone to use I think, I have another spare set that’s much better, but the hinge standoffs have blown out so I need to 3D print some parts first. This one has had the tensioning springs removed from the hinges so they’re floppy - this means no more plastic damage.
It does work fine, just not super usable at the moment. It has the 640x480 5300c display in it now.