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Gateway Solo 2150 (v1.5, 3500673) / Laptop / Acquired 29 Oct 2016

I wrote an entire blog post about this one, if you're willing to sit through the horrendous writing style I had back then.

In short, this is a laptop that an aunt+uncle gave me, alongside a broken HP laptop. I made a number of upgrades to it over the past few years, including maxing out the RAM, adding a new HDD (I tried a CF adapter to no avail), and even got it onto my home network with a PCMCIA WiFi adapter. A couple years back the hinge assembly started to fail, and nearly destroyed the display; luckily, I was able to detach it before any damage could be done (aside from a tiny bit of the front bezel cracking off). So now it's sort of a desktop computer?

This was the oldest/slowest x86 PC I owned for quite a while, that streak being broken by Stonecutter several years later.

• CPU: Coppermine Pentium III, 600MHz
• GPU: ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2x
• RAM: 288MB
• OS: Windows NT 4

More Pictures

• [Jul 2021] Updated BIOS splash screen.
• [Aug 2019] Another screenfetch, this time under i3wm.
• [Aug 2019] Output of screenfetch.
• [Aug 2019] Running a variant of Puppy Linux.
• [Aug 2019] Viewing Twitter via a commandline browser.
• [Jun 2019] Tweeting from Windows 2000.
• [Apr 2019] Doing some important research in Encarta.
• [Mar 2019] Running Clonezilla.
• [Mar 2019] A little fursona doodle in MSPaint.
• [Sep 2018] Running Impulse Tracker (again).
• [Sep 2017] Desktop setup, complete with a generic vaporwave wallpaper! At least I applied some dithering.
• [Sep 2017] Running Impulse Tracker.
• [Sep 2017] BIOS text.
• [Sep 2017] BIOS splash screen.
• [Sep 2017] Lid of the laptop.
• [Sep 2017] Port selection.
• [Sep 2017] Basic pic of the laptop.
• [Oct 2016] Attempting to run Windows XP.