retro-pc_user
Veteran Member
I tested the newly acquired laptop that has an integrated game pad (D-pad + 4 buttons) that has a crappy DSTN display (pain in the pinfeathers) and sadly, both the floppy drive and the CD drive aren't working (well, the head doesn't move with a diskette inserted, but it sounds like it's moving without one inserted, but no dice after oiling the shaft).
The CD drive had a broken off switch and when I put the switch back on after soldering it back together, the small ribbon cable connector snapped right off.
The woes:
No floppy drive (Panasonic/Matsushita JU-226A031F/F12614)
No CD drive (Teac CD-40E-903-U)
DSTN display
The goods:
Pentium 133
32MB RAM
ES1688F with sound test (BIOS thing, which is odd, yet cool)
External floppy connector (don't have any to test at the moment as the ones I have are too wide).
Game pad integrated for playing DOS FPS games, like DooM, Duke Nukem 3D, and so on
Where to source a CD drive that uses a 44-pin IDE interface is a pain in the rear end and attempting to find out how to upgrade the display to a TFT Active.
The CD drive had a broken off switch and when I put the switch back on after soldering it back together, the small ribbon cable connector snapped right off.
The woes:
No floppy drive (Panasonic/Matsushita JU-226A031F/F12614)
No CD drive (Teac CD-40E-903-U)
DSTN display
The goods:
Pentium 133
32MB RAM
ES1688F with sound test (BIOS thing, which is odd, yet cool)
External floppy connector (don't have any to test at the moment as the ones I have are too wide).
Game pad integrated for playing DOS FPS games, like DooM, Duke Nukem 3D, and so on
Where to source a CD drive that uses a 44-pin IDE interface is a pain in the rear end and attempting to find out how to upgrade the display to a TFT Active.
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