[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

Oh YES! The perfect thing he needs is a laptop found at a yard/garage sale for CHEAP. Notice the word CHEAP.

The summer before my freshman year I found a laptop manufactured in May of 1992 from the now extinct company AST. The lady selling it offered it to me for $5! No kidding, she previously wanted $20 for it, but it was the last day and wanted to get rid of it. It was STUFFED with goodies, MS Word, PP, Excel, 4.0, a designing lab, Win 3.1, etc. I loaded other goodies into it, fixed its registry, and it became a beastly machine. Sadly the LCD ribbon tore and I had to rip off the screen and give it a monitor.
PS: anyone have a site I can goto to find a replacement LCD signal ribbon for it, I would like to make it mobile again.

You could try Impact Computers. I have dealt with them several times and have been very satisfied with them. They are located in Florida. I bought a Toshiba Satellite 2800 series off Ebay with a damaged keyboard and dead battery. I replaced the keyboard and battery and also maxed the memory out with parts from Impact. They were cheaper than going through Toshiba. The Satellite has performed flawlessly for me so far. I don't know if they would have the parts you need or if they list all of them on thier website but it's worth a shot.