Currently cleaning up an old Dell C600 laptop I had lying around from my school years. Pretty old machine that still works, from about 2000/2001 I believe. Pentium III CPU, 256MB RAM. Might use it as a kind of retro gaming DOS machine or something, it even has a Maestro sound chip which is quite suited for that.
Funny thing is I remember from my school years is it used to overheat quite easily, casually hanging around in 90+ degrees celsius temps. CPU fan never seemed to work and as a kid I didn’t think much of it and eventually upgraded anyway. Now I’ve found why it never worked. Some silly person, before I got it, had obviously taken it apart to clean it and accidentally put one of the longer screws in near the CPU fan… and it wedged into the fan blades 🤣
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Currently cleaning up an old Dell C600 laptop I had lying around from my school years. Pretty old machine that still works, from about 2000/2001 I believe. Pentium III CPU, 256MB RAM. Might use it as a kind of retro gaming DOS machine or something, it even has a Maestro sound chip which is quite suited for that.
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@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com Oh dear 🤦♂️ I’ll bet it’ll work great without that screw wedged in the fan blades 😆