I'm about to move out of my current apartment and am getting rid of a bunch of stuff.

I came across an IBM Thinkpad 560. 120MHz Pentium for sure. I am not definite on the hard drive or memory though. Hard drive is likely in the 800MB range. I upgraded the memory at one point and it may be over 64MB now. I know it works, but I didn't power it on last night because I was too occupied with throwing other junk out. The battery is 100% dead. It is currently running Windows98 (probably SE).

If anyone wants it, all you have to pay is shipping. I was planning on selling it on ebay, but the ebay fees would probably kill the deal and I'd rather not toss something someone else might want.

You can see pics of it here. Everything else on that page is also available at the moment for sale.

If you want the laptop please send me a PM. I rarely read the email address listed in my profile.

Actually dead batteries on those 560's can be easily revived to some of their old glory. Put it in a watertight ziplock bag and place it in the freezer for about 1-2 hours. Then it will be able charge back to about 80-90%.

Worked for all dead 560X batteries that I've encountered, but didn't work on my newer X20 though.

The laptop has been spoken for.

My very first laptop Now I'll have one to whip out at the meet just like all the other geeks

Are you still talking about the laptop, or have there been other changes we don't know about?

LOL

Update: SB51G is spoken for

While I have a thread open about stuff I'm selling I am going to mention that my SB51G is for sale. I will probably be taking all the goodies out tomorrow (CPU, RAM, drives, etc.), so it's pretty-much immediately available. I have the original box and everything else that comes with it.

Make an offer. It's in original condition aside from the "Intel Inside" sticker I put on the front (tastefully).

EDIT: The thermal grease that came with the SB51G to apply between the CPU and heatsink has been used. I will be cleaning the heatsink before shipping, so you will need some thermal paste/tape or something along those lines.

Update: Seems like the Optiplex is sold

OK, more stuff.

I was able to get a stripped Dell Optiplex up and running with stuff I found while cleaning the apartment. It's one of those thin Optiplex units with only one 5 1/4" drive bay. The machine has a Pentium II 450, 192MB SDRAM, 20GB hard drive, DVD-ROM, Netgear 10/100 PCI NIC, and 56k PCI modem. Video (ATI Rage) and sound are on-board. $100 takes it (shipped free in the continental US).

Notes: There is one free PCI slot remaining. I think the slot is also shared with an ISA slot. Dell service tag: 66NRI