I got a $10 Windows 98 Laptop from eBay! Does it work?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I recently found this Retro Windows 98 and MS-DOS Gaming Laptop for only $10.00 on eBay!! Does it actually work, and is it any good? In this video, we'll do a full test, cleaning, and restoration on this Toshiba 4260 Laptop!
Well, I didn't realize these old laptops were so desireable! I have at LEAST half a dozen various computers and laptops that need new homes lol
They really are! You can sell them on eBay, and they will do well if they’re working and in good shape. Or send me an email and let me know what you’re got. I might be interested in one or two. :-)
That classic music when you turn on an old laptop is so satisfying 😁😁
It sure is!
@@retrotv1tech 💻
Josh, what a fun Video! It was well worth the $10 plus shipping!
It sure was! Thanks, Dave!
was there shipping, well that should be the total cost, as it a changes form place to place, but it was part of the cost of have as your?
Looks like you've got a great find in that laptop! Was fun watching your excitement at how well it worked! Great job on this video! 😊
Thank you!!
Josh,from boot up to clean up it’s all great content. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
I love your passion for old tech 👍
Thanks!!
Love how excited you get when you get new retro tech! 🤗 Just curious, what’s the serial port and the vga on the back of the computer used for? Also the toothbrush hack for cleaning the computer is genius lol 😂
Probably printers.
Thank you 😊
@@nikkitobin527 No worries.
Hi Nikki! Serial port is used for all kinds of things… it’s the precursor to USB on modern computers. It was most commonly used for external mice, external modems, cash register peripherals, scanners, and more! The VGA port is for hooking up an external monitor before HDMI was thing.
Thank you so much! 💕
Love old laptops 😀😀😀
Absolutely! So fun!
@@retrotv1tech 😀🤗
Always wonderful when you get what you expect! Great buy 🖥️
Absolutely! Thanks!
My dad had a HP laptop that had the tv output on it, it had windows ME on it. It had a fast boot into a dvd player that you could connect to the tv, that is how we watched DVDs before my parents bought a dvd player.
Wow! That’s really cool! I never saw one of those before. I wonder if this one does that too, and that’s why part of the model number is DVD at the end.
@@retrotv1tech This is usually in the era of Win9x on home PCs and Laptops if I remember correctly. I had a couple in the past that had this video out or a s-video out.
These old Toshiba laptops were pretty cool. I've got a 4000CDT for free, unfortunately the internal keyboard doesn't work due to liquid damage so I'm trying to find a replacement. It is a great laptop for DOS games otherwise due to having both a CD drive as well as a floppy disk drive and a genuine Yamaha OPL3 chip.
That is a good machine for sure! Perhaps you can find a non-working machine on eBay and swap the keyboards.
Cheap Toshibas for the win! i just got a Tecra 8000 with a PII for 30 but was very water damaged. after a lot of cleaning and poking it somehow works now.
Glad it works now! Nice!
Cool!
great show guys thanks
Thanks for watching!
Bro, I bought a laptop for $8 on ebay works great. HP elitebook 8440p 4GB i5 😂 I liked it so much I found another one mint condition, $10! Works perfect, literally mint condition, even has all the plastic bottom bumpers. 😂
Very nice!
MMARA2 sorry the chat switched over when the Video ended. THe "IBM Nub" in my opinion was too "Business only focused" and didn't stand a chance in a blustering gaming market. I think it was a good idea for OS navigation, but not so much beyond that.
The IBM Nub had variance, where that there was a difference in pushing it slightly verses pushing it all the way. Kind of like an Analog stick on Console Controllers today.
Do you have a patched version of Jazz Jackrabbit installed on this laptop? I was surprised that it runs on a PIII, the unpatched version gives me runtime 200 error on my Thinkpad 600E with a Pentium II, that is related to CPU being too fast. Great video btw!
That’s a good question. I’m not sure. I think it’s just one that I found online. Although, I did find a patching utility for Tyrian, so it’s possible I used that on Jazz as well. It’s just been a while.
@@retrotv1tech Thanks, i will try to patch it. Tyrian runs very well unpatched on my TP 600E.
Run the Intel chipset utility. Super important.
I remember doing that years ago, but I forgot why…. Does it just make it faster, more stable, or both.
@@retrotv1tech It installs low level drivers than enable the best performance of the PCI bus. Windows will almost always run with dumbed down drivers that are stock with the OS - at least since W98. The performance difference is very substantial. I had a Tecra 8000 (PII 250Mhz) and that's one of the first machines I so treated.
hi i have this same computer and i was wondering if you could archive the toshiba cd if so that would be great thanks
Yes. I can do that. Unfortunately the CD that was in there wasn’t exactly for this machine, but I can archive what I have. :-)
That’s really cool but I will stick with Mac
I remember that machine. What is battery condition?
The battery is great. It’s a replacement somebody bought as I showed on the video. But it seems to last over an hour, maybe 2!
That’s great! Those Satellite series machines were the best bang for buck available for a long time.
I wanted to be "Like" Number #404 but I'll settle for 202. 🤣
Lol. I see what you did there!
Meanwhile here's me with a mega computer hoard....i dont wish to alarm anyone but i MAY have close to 101 Laptops.
That’s actually amazing…. I’d love to see your collection!
@@retrotv1tech most of it is documented right here on the tube!
Which laptops do you have in your collection? any 486, Pentium I?
@@km-xr5im yeah I got a (Cyrix) 486 based chicony, Latitude CP, Siemens Scenic 320CX, Compaq LTE 5280, and a few P1 toshies
I'm gonna guess that you are a Capricorn.
So awesome! That’s a great $10 find! I love where we find out if the computer will work! Also love the time lapse cleaning and my favorite is the games! Hehe
I haven’t done a cleaning time lapse before, so that was fun for sure!