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Gordon Bennett · 05-01-2006, 07:09 AM

I have my old Dell laptop that I keep around for games. Pentium 3 with Win98. It works well, and it has a rather large and lovely screen, plus a DVD drive built in. I know a lot of people have had complaints regarding Dell, but overall this machine works well. I had to have a few parts replaced under warranty in the first year that I owned it, but after that it's worked flawlessly. Aside from the battery, of course, but I wouldn't expect it to hold a charge after seven years.

I also have a 486 laptop around somewhere, which doesn't really get much use, and an inhereted Mac Powerbook that is about ten years old, and also works perfectly, aside from the battery.

Laptops are definitely the way to go for maintaining backwards compatibility. Anything else is too bulky to keep around.

Though I do have a Commodore 128 packed away. And I did have an Atari ST, but I sold it to a musician friend.

05-01-2006, 07:09 AM	#7
Gordon Bennett Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London Posts: 357	I have my old Dell laptop that I keep around for games. Pentium 3 with Win98. It works well, and it has a rather large and lovely screen, plus a DVD drive built in. I know a lot of people have had complaints regarding Dell, but overall this machine works well. I had to have a few parts replaced under warranty in the first year that I owned it, but after that it's worked flawlessly. Aside from the battery, of course, but I wouldn't expect it to hold a charge after seven years. I also have a 486 laptop around somewhere, which doesn't really get much use, and an inhereted Mac Powerbook that is about ten years old, and also works perfectly, aside from the battery. Laptops are definitely the way to go for maintaining backwards compatibility. Anything else is too bulky to keep around. Though I do have a Commodore 128 packed away. And I did have an Atari ST, but I sold it to a musician friend.