[VHFcontesting] Looking for old Think Pad accessories

[Dan Evans]

I picked up a "new" old computer for the Rover last week.  It is a Think 
Pad, 390e.  Old, but seems to work quite well. 

I could use the DC power adapter, if anyone has an old one they are no 
longer using.  Preferably one that is reasonably RF quiet...



The longer story:

It has a 266 Mhz processor, 64 Mb of RAM,  6 gig HD, and believe it or 
not, came running Windows XP!  XP was installed and running, but would 
REALLY bog down every time I tried to install anything so I dumped XP 
and installed Windows 2000.   Windows 2000 seems to work a lot better.

Anyway, the battery is dead so I would like to replace it.   And I can 
add up to two 128 Mb RAM modules. 

The old machine has a sound card, and a real serial port!  However, most 
of the radio software I use will not work on this old of a machine.  HRD 
for example, says it requires a 500 Mhz processor, and WSJT is similar.  
Has anyone tried running WSJT on a "legacy" machine?   RoverLog seems to 
do OK, so far.

I thought I would try the mailing list first, since many of you guys may 
have one of these machines gathering dust, or in the scrap pile, with 
extra accessories.

73
Dan
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