Comments on: Travels with Charley http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Poor man’s SSD « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-44367 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:58:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-44367 [...] back in October, when I went on a short vacation and gallivanted all around the world with a Pentium laptop, I suffered a rather noisy and very unfortunate hard drive crash. In the time that I had remaining [...]

]]> By: ShiftPlusOne http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40749 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:11:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40749 Ah, thank you! Batteryrebuild looks promising. I’ve looked on ebay, but the few batteries they has were sold with the labels ‘not tested, sold as is’… which doesn’t sound at all reliable.

Anyway, thanks again, I’ll look into batteryrebuild.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40748 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:39:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40748 Sorry; overlooked that one. Once or twice I bought rehabbed batteries off of ebay, or batteries that fix the model but claimed to be chargeable. Results were mixed.

Someone mentioned http://www.batteryrebuild.com, but I haven’t tried their service yet. I might.

]]> By: ShiftPlusOne http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40747 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:06:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40747 No? Ok then =(

]]> By: ShiftPlusOne http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40701 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:23:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40701 I’ve got a similar battery issue. I bouht an old laptop for $40. It’s hard drive was a barely working mess and it ran Windows ME. After finding a new hard drive and replacing the internal button cell, I got it running Gentoo quite nicely. The only downside is I can’t find any place that sells the battery for the ThinkPad 560Z.

Since you have all these years of experience with old laptop, would you happen to know what my best bet for the battery is?

]]> By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40686 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:28:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40686 Hey KMandla, good to see you back. I have acquired a 500MHz P3 toshiba satellite pro with a whopping 64MB of RAM and it runs Puppy Linux quite well, even wirelessly. Works well as a thin-client as well.

Sure it weighs 6-8lbs but there’s no substitute for having a ‘working antique’ =D

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40684 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:51:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40684 Just think of it as a net-encyclopedia. :biggrin:

]]> By: JakeT http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40683 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40683 I saw a Win95 laptop for sale a few days ago and passed on it b/c of weight issue as well. The size was great and I’m sure I could have gotten it working fine, but the fact that it weight twice what my normal laptop does throws the whole portability thing right out the window.

]]> By: Timmy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40679 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:23:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/travels-with-charley/#comment-40679 >It’s just a little difficult, personally, to justify rebuilding the battery at a cost six and a half times what I paid for the entire computer.

I had a similar struggle with myself over a circa 1999 Thinkpad I picked up for $5–and ended up spending ten times that much for a power cord, battery and RAM.

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