How big do you want your hard drive to be? I have a 4.3Gb laptop drive left
over after I upgraded to a 40Gb.
Tony Wasson
ajwasson@inficad.com
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From: "Bryce C." <
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Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 14:59
Subject: OT: Laptop Parts
> After being on vacation for a week, I have finally returned home to find
> myself reading >700 e-mails. (For those interested, it was divided about
> 50/50 Junk/PLUG.) Anyway, now that I'm caught up with that, I have time
> to play the the laptop I bought on vacation (yes, work is never far) and
> I'm now working on scrounging parts for it. It cost about $90 and the
> PCMCIA NIC $20 at a PC consignment shoppe but of course taht also means
> it's been used. This is a Dell Latitude XP 4100CX laptop running a
> 486DX(Yes, for real), 1.2Gb HD, 12Mb RAM, and a floppy. First thing is
> first, can anyone tell me of a good place for a replacement battery
> cheap. Its has been toasted (memory thing) and it really isn't all that
> useful w/o a battery. I've got a couple bids on eBay but I was hoping
> for something a little more immediate. Second, I'd like a larger HD for
> Linux. Since it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, I'd like to copy the
> distro disks to the HD so I can install packages on the road. Can
> anyone tell me of a good place for cheap, large capacity, 2.5" HDs and
> possibly their price & size.
>
> Bryce C.
> Network Administrator
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce @ BryceCo . Net
>
>
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