I exaggerate. But hey, it almost is.
Once upon a time, a week before the Asian Crisis set in, I bought a black, Singapore-made IPC laptop. It was a pretty good unit for its time, save for the fact that the plastic casing seemed flimsy. It was a Pentium unit with 32MB of RAM, 4GB of hard disk space, an RCA Video Out port (a novelty, even today), and Windows 95.
After a couple of years of usefulness, the unit got stashed away in some dark nook. Unfortunately, it turns out that it was a rather humid nook. Almost a decade later, I uncovered the laptop and, to my horror, was faced with crumbling plastic and a moisture-savaged LCD screen.
I had this poor thing revived at SST Laptop n PC Shop at the Cyberzone of SM Megamall, and they did what they can to salvage the thing. Including replacing the dead LCD lid with one from a Toshiba Satellite. A dull gray one. It was the closest fit, I suppose.
That, plus the putty-work that was done to salvage the disintegrating plastic, led to the monstrosity seen here. Note how the lid is much larger than the body.
But amazingly, it works! My old Windows 95 booted up without a hitch, and memories flooded back as I saw old files and programs come to life.
The shop did its best to make the unit look a tad presentable, eventually covering the horridly drab lid in black tape. Total cost: just a thousand pesos, which was a steal considering that they patiently puttied the thing together and gave me a replacement lid.
After ten minutes playing with my Frankenstein laptop, however, I shut it down, tucked it away in lots of silica gel, and forgot about it. There simply isn't much that one can do on a computer that ran Windows 95, had no USB ports, and only had a floppy drive to let you extract its files.
I know, I know, there's Linux. I'll get to it sometime...
I had this poor thing revived at SST Laptop n PC Shop at the Cyberzone of SM Megamall, and they did what they can to salvage the thing. Including replacing the dead LCD lid with one from a Toshiba Satellite. A dull gray one. It was the closest fit, I suppose.
That, plus the putty-work that was done to salvage the disintegrating plastic, led to the monstrosity seen here. Note how the lid is much larger than the body.
But amazingly, it works! My old Windows 95 booted up without a hitch, and memories flooded back as I saw old files and programs come to life.
The shop did its best to make the unit look a tad presentable, eventually covering the horridly drab lid in black tape. Total cost: just a thousand pesos, which was a steal considering that they patiently puttied the thing together and gave me a replacement lid.
After ten minutes playing with my Frankenstein laptop, however, I shut it down, tucked it away in lots of silica gel, and forgot about it. There simply isn't much that one can do on a computer that ran Windows 95, had no USB ports, and only had a floppy drive to let you extract its files.
I know, I know, there's Linux. I'll get to it sometime...
Great. You've piqued my curiousity. I want to see that laptop, play around with it, install linux and perhaps we can donate it for charity if you're really not going to use it.
Hmm. Which reminds me. Where's that post I made about giving away no longer used gadgets?
electronic resurrection. you're really one of those few who would go extra mile to optimize the use of these electronic devices. had i own that laptop, i would do everything as well to salvage its value, including parts revamp perhaps of 4Gb to probably 20GB. but i think that cost a dime already.
You're lucky my friend. I had an old Toshiba Libretto 75 which had no floppy drive, no USB port and powered by an amazingly fast 75 Mhz processor. Yup, 75 big ones. But hey, we're talking President Cory times here. It had Win 3.1. Had something that resembled Word or Wordperfect and somewhat of a program to access the internet before Internet Explorer was written. I ended up returning it to Superpawn when I couldn't find any accessories like the connecting serial cables for the printer or even a floppy drive. No use trying to bring back a sense of nostalgia if I can't save or print out anything from it. It's pretty portable and useful though, if only those important things weren't missing.
@Albert Cabreira
just curious, does it still work?
I have some Second-hand laptop of IBM
DELL-D600 PM1.4G/512M/60G/COMBO/14.1"TFT/56K/LAN/ATI32M graphics US$ 332.4
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=393040
If you have problems with your laptop. GO to AB-Blanc Computer System.talagang hindi kayo lolokohin. i got their # sa buy and sell. they're really good.
this is thier contact # 438-8622 #82 main ave.cubao qc. between 13 and 14 ave.
Wag kayo mag paloko sa SST computer and laptop repair shop sa SM Annex sa 5th floor and also sa Technix Solutions computer service sa shopwise cubao branch and st.francis square branch.
kasi sabi ng mga yun they have to change the MOTHERBOARD of my laptop and it cost 12,000. yun ang sabi ng SST and TECHNIX.
when i brought my laptop in AB BLANC COMPUTER SYSTEM IN cubao sa main ave.
OK daw yung LAPTOP ko no need to buy a new motherboard.
See? how this tehcnix and SSTcomputer shop FOOLED ME.
My laptop acer aspire walang display, dinala ko sa Technix kahit san ko dinala hindi nila magawa ang Technix lang nakagawa, my friends told me ok din daw SST..Pinopromote mo ba ang company mo? AB Blanc whatever..guys you can go to a trusted repair shop..its for you to find out..and depende rin sa technician marami rin kasing manggagantso..Im here at Singapore right now and my laptop it's still working pa naman..Thanks =)
Had i own that laptop, i would do everything as well to salvage its value, including parts revamp perhaps of 4Gb to probably 20GB. but i think that cost a dime already.
Best regards, Alex CEO of youtube downloader
No use trying to bring back a sense of nostalgia if I can't save or print out anything from it.
Best regards, Katya, CEO of video cd burner, iscsi initiator mpio
ipc are not for me... it is not the fastest of laptops and i would not consider ipc to be one of the best suppliers. i had several problems with my laptop and i got told my motherboard had blown when infact the issue was the keyboard was loose so i lost everything! the print on the keys wore away very quickly and the battery became utterly useless so to use this laptop it has to be plugged in. apart from that the screen sprained on the hinges and ...
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