One worn out laptop
Tonight I spent the evening, or most of it anyway on Youtube until I'm more than ready for bed, of which I'll do here in a few.
Viewed a bunch of videos from a guy by the handle of vwestlife where he showed us one sad older Toshiba Satellite 1105 laptop. It runs a Pentium III processor, and had, I think Windows 98 on it.
Someone brought it to him to see about fixing it, but a quick check revealed it was beyond hope.
First off, the backlight on the screen is bad. Lights up upon boot up, but almost immediately goes out but the display itself still worked. There was signs of stress on one hing and evidence of being oiled on both. Then he discovered that the latch was bad as you can simply pry up on one corner to open it up. Once he connected up an external monitor, he discovered a good bit of clicking from the hard drive, and it was running quite slow too and also discovered that the trackpad no longer worked, oh he saw the pointer, but moving his finger on the pad showed it to not move at all, and besides, as I show below, the track pad's surface is very shiny and well worn, and the battery was likely bad as it began to beep as it was either not charged, or not holding one.
Essentially, the owner had gotten every last dime out of that poor thing and it was begging to be taken out of its misery.
Here is the very worn track pad.
This was pulled from a screen grab of the video in question.
Then I got sucked in and heard a bunch of old hard drives, including one old octaganal drive from Kolak that was in the throws of dying as it had multiple bad sectors, made major clicking noises, major whine, and I forget what else as it kept getting hung up and the stepper motor kept clicking away and another old drive, a rusty IBM AT/XT hard drive that he got to spin up but doubt it'd work otherwise and several other drives from other youtubers, including an old Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" drive that was around 6GB, much like my old 2GB version of that drive. The size was to allow larger sized drives to be less expensive, such as those over a gigabyte in size when those drives were still pretty spendy in the mid to late 90's.
Anyway, that was my evening. :-)
Viewed a bunch of videos from a guy by the handle of vwestlife where he showed us one sad older Toshiba Satellite 1105 laptop. It runs a Pentium III processor, and had, I think Windows 98 on it.
Someone brought it to him to see about fixing it, but a quick check revealed it was beyond hope.
First off, the backlight on the screen is bad. Lights up upon boot up, but almost immediately goes out but the display itself still worked. There was signs of stress on one hing and evidence of being oiled on both. Then he discovered that the latch was bad as you can simply pry up on one corner to open it up. Once he connected up an external monitor, he discovered a good bit of clicking from the hard drive, and it was running quite slow too and also discovered that the trackpad no longer worked, oh he saw the pointer, but moving his finger on the pad showed it to not move at all, and besides, as I show below, the track pad's surface is very shiny and well worn, and the battery was likely bad as it began to beep as it was either not charged, or not holding one.
Essentially, the owner had gotten every last dime out of that poor thing and it was begging to be taken out of its misery.
Here is the very worn track pad.
This was pulled from a screen grab of the video in question.
Then I got sucked in and heard a bunch of old hard drives, including one old octaganal drive from Kolak that was in the throws of dying as it had multiple bad sectors, made major clicking noises, major whine, and I forget what else as it kept getting hung up and the stepper motor kept clicking away and another old drive, a rusty IBM AT/XT hard drive that he got to spin up but doubt it'd work otherwise and several other drives from other youtubers, including an old Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" drive that was around 6GB, much like my old 2GB version of that drive. The size was to allow larger sized drives to be less expensive, such as those over a gigabyte in size when those drives were still pretty spendy in the mid to late 90's.
Anyway, that was my evening. :-)