Thread: What to do with an old Windows 3.10 laptop?
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Re: What to do with an old Windows 3.10 laptop?
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
I acquired one of these a while back from Jay who is on my team, and I just brought it back out of my desk's cabinet for a breath of fresh air. It's a shame I haven't used it in a while, but I have no idea what to do with it.

Any suggestions?

It's a Toshiba t1900c laptop (one of the old-school white ones) with:
Windows 3.10
DOS 6.0
386 Enhanced processor
9104kb memory
and.. a whopping 22,480kb HD.
Floppy Drive
Support for PCMIA

Any ideas?

All I want to really do with it now is potentially upgrade it to Win95 (Need the floppy disks) connect it to the internet (need a pcmia card) and download and run SETI on it just to say I did it.

That's not to much to ask right?
I don't think you'd be able to install Win 95 on that machine. I had a 486 running 95, and it was just barely enough to do basic functions. Also, according to the Windows 95 system requirements, you need 35-40 MB of free hard disk space to upgrade a system to 95.
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