Hi /g/ I found an old laptop, it's missing the charger,

clean the top with a wet paper towel

you should probably swap the HDD, but I doubt it'll break anything else if the HDD dies after some use, so might as well try to wipe it and see if it works before buying another one

Nice find, OP! What's the model number? Should be shown on the inside by the right hinge. Probably starting with X or T.

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this is now a post your old ThinkPads thread

A30 I acquired recently.

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>>56966092
It says it's a T40 type 2374
It came with pic related too
I managed to get it to the login screen, but the passwords are not default, so i guess the XP enterprise is worthless

I'm not exactly a computer guy, but a friend who browses here told me you like these old workstations and i really need all the help i can get

>>56966163
Yeah, we love ThinkPads here. If you want some experts to help you out, definitely post about this in ThinkPad General.

It's good it came with the dock. Those can be surprisingly expensive, and they're awesome to have. ThinkPads are pretty tough, so I'm sure this thing will still be pretty usable despite it looking like it does.

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Also i found this, a braille typing aid, a Texas instruments calculator (with cartridges!) and Shrek 1 in dvd

Also, an OG DS, its ROM cart thingy, two spare batteries (one of which is fatter), a lamp, an external disk bay and lots of cables

>>56966163
If you configure it right, it can be an incredible machine for things like light browsing (no heavy JS applications or Flash), word processing, learning/tinkering with sysadmin/programming, running light local services (mpd, dlna, torrents, etc). Especially if you replace the HDD and get more RAM.

If you want to make it useable swap the useless slow HDD for an SSD. You won't believe how much it impacts performance.

You can get chargers for it from ebay for next to nothing. They are cheap and so widely available no matter where you are.

If you want a battery for it, get one from aliexpress. Costs you less than $20, you just have to wait a month for it.

Old thinkpads are perfect for Linux experimenting.

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>>56966237

>>56966250
>linux experimenting
I was thinking of this + taking notes in class
My other laptop lasts barely 4:30 and i need at least 6 hours

>>56966186
Those settings are written in italian... I thought to be the only shitposter with a ThinkPad in the whole peninsula

>>56966289
Nah, i'm mostly on /o/, this is pretty alien to me
We can shitpost together if you want now

>>56966278

If you are using it for taking notes you have to install Linux for it, because the processor is painfully slow and you don't have much memory to play with.

You can have a ready set distro but if you want to keep things light, Arch Linux and a window manager will keep the memory consumption low but give you best performance.

>>56966312

eyyy

>>56966322
I can take notes with just nano, that should cut down on the memory consumption, right?
>>56966335
Eiiiiiii limone

>>56966352

use vim like all the cool kids do

>>56966352
seconding vim but also yeah nano should be hella light and work fine too

>>56966256
what console is that

BIOS interna clock seems to be utterly fucked as it keeps asking me for date and time

>>56966612
Original Nintendo DS

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Neat find OP
I've got a T42, R52, R30, X40 Tablet and a THICCPAD G40
I also still have my gen 1 DS

Replace the hard drive, maybe add some ram and install something like Ubuntu with LXDE or XFCE for a light browsing machine. Depending on the dedicated GPU that motherboard has, you can maybe do light oldschool gaming on it. If it has an XP key on it still, get a recovery XP disk and reinstall XP on a new drive.
I play Empire Earth, The Sims, SWAT 3 and Halo Combat Evvolved on my T42 which has been upgraded to a 2ghz Pentium M, 2gb of ram, but only has the 32mb of VRAM ATI chip

Replacing a drive will be cheap, adding more ram is usually like 10$ a sodimm, and if you have a cd and another computer you can make an XP install disk

>>56966798
The battery is probably dead, they're cheap on eBay.

Also while I'm thinking about it, to answer your first question, it is very easy to change the hard drive, since it's in a caddy. There should be one screw on the bottom of a small plastic cover on one of the sides near the palm rests, take that screw off and you should be able to pull the entire HDD out in its caddy
Then you can change out the HDD in the caddy and then slide the caddy with the new drive back in

Note, old shit like this still uses PATA, not SATA, don't buy any 2.5" drive you find, because it has to be 44 pin pata IDE

>>56966405
this

>>56966278
>>56966322
i would strongly suggest dwm/xmonad if you you can handle limited ("only what you actually need") functionality from a wm and don't need to use a mouse 90% of the time, fluxbox if you like using your mouse for things.

>>56966612
how old are you dude?

Installing arch right now, any tip?
>>56967459
I kinda like i3 and such, won't need mouse too much

First hiccup, which video drivers do i use?

>>56967641
read the rules

>>56967926

lspci | grep vga

if intel, then xf86-video-intel

>>56967926
probably radeon, possibly an legacy driver

>>56967459
>fluxbox
why not openbox?

>>56969137
because fluxbox has more flux, habibi.
also xml is satan.
also window tabbing.
also more aesthetic theming possibilities.
also built-in panel.

>>56969797
>also built-in panel.
literally doesn't matter

>xml is satan
it's easy to use and if you don't want to interface with it directly you can use obconf

>window tabbing
what is this?

>more aesthetic theming possibilities
can you provide pics? openbox has themes and most things are covered by your gtk theme anyway

>>56966612
>>56966859
>>56967518
I was about to say something about the DS being scuffed up, but I realized mine has had a broken upper-screen since about 2008 when I ran face-first into a door as it was closing on me. Most of the damage was to the DS because it was in a backpack.

>>56966068
give it back jamal

Update
We runnin', just need to have the right shit launch at boot and maybe find out how to get fish
Not even gonna touch the wifi

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>literally doesn't matter
one less thing to have running

>it's easy to use
didn't say it was hard, i said it was satan
fluxbox config format is cleaner to edit


>window tabbing
>what is this?
pic related

most fluxbox themes are admittedly crap, but there are a few resources with good ones, and all window decorations and menus are skinnable. i only know from reading comparisons, but it said that openbox does not allow as much pixmap skinning. it is imho the best non-tiling wm if you (like a normal person) don't need bells and whistles like compositing or de services.

Where do you guys "find" these?
Do you search on Amazon or do you LITERALLY find them somewhere in a trash or something.

>>56972901
Found this as a neighbour was emptying his garage
You should look in junkyards though, especially specialized ones
That's how i find bike parts, for instance

>>56966163
Check out /tpg/, the thread dedicated to thinkpads. It's cozy af and they'll love the whole retro thing

>>56966256
>tfw broke my old mario kart edition ds fat
>tfw mom made me throw it out
Shit man, those were the days

Right now it has just one glaring problem
Left controllo doesn't work
And maybe the batteries are dead

>>56973348
Left Controller? Batteries are most likely dead.
>>56973165
Bike parts and bikes ftw.

>>56966068
>nuke the drive

and there goes a wallet.dat with 10k bitcoins

>>56966068
>I found
Jamal, give it back

>>56966186
aww yiss, fucking lifedrive

does it have this stupid, battery-eating mechanical drive, or is it modded with CF card?

>>56966068
>Should i just try and nuke the drive and install whatever or is it possible to swap it to a newer one?
Install gentoo

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>>56974857
Lel, the PC had not been turned on since 199something
>>56977076
>jamal
Italians are white, WHITE!
>>56978097
It's 4gb and battery has lasted 12h+
>>56978179
Installed arch

>>56966289
you're not, we're three with a thinkpad in the whole peninsula apparently.

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>>56972695
>pic related
Ah. That is cool, I suppose.

The config looks clean and simple also. Everything is a bit ugly, though.

Here's my openbox desktop.

>>56978408
>Lel, the PC had not been turned on since 199something
It was made in the early 00s

>>56978858
Which means that under the international law of finders keepers it's rightfully mine

>>56978504
Nope, we're four now

OP can you post picture of Shrek 1 DVD cover art? Just for nostalgia.

>>56979168
In true italian fashion it's pirated...

>>56978408
Nice find. Thinkpads are somewhat rare here in italy

>>56979317
he could be italian american m8

>>56980926
Nah, i'm italian italian

>>56978755
well, you don't even have window decorations, so gtk theme is everything. I'm still on gtk2 because fuck 3, I don't need it, and I use some Qt apps as well, so I'm not super concerned with having everything match since it's a pain in the ass when you have multiple widget and decoration libraries. in terms of functionality though, I love the clean config and tabbed windows make my life much easier. and if i ever have the time to go full ricer mode it is very straightforward to reskin window decorations and menus.

also it comes standard with the full install of Slackware, the one true Linux.