I’ve picked up two old (very old) laptops and I’m looking to get them up and running for the display area at the NSC. I’ve managed to coble together some power supplies, begged a couple of old CD drives and managed to fix the screen on one of them however I’m lacking hard drives.

Not wishing to throw too much money at the project has anyone got any old 2.5 “ IDE internal laptop hard drives they would be willing to donate ? Any size is fine.

It its anything like my "very old" laptop I may be asking you for some help in getting mine up and running

I'll see if I can find any HDD's laying around

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Geordi,
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(CO of the Bucketheads)

Marc Freedman

You should be able to find a sub 20GB notebook drive on ePay pretty cheap these days. Especially since everyone wants
the 60+ GB size ones now.

If this "very old" laptop is anything the rest of us are familiar with (from an Aliens standpoint), I'm sure rest of us would welcome any fix up info you'd care to share.

Russ

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"A writer needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army." - Orson Wells.

http://www.rookscastle.com
http://www.alchemyarms.com

Just a couple of ten year old Dell’s Russ. Talking of Grids I about three in a box of bits and I've only ever managed to get one working

Just out of curiosity, what model Grids are they? The dead ones I mean.

Russ

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"A writer needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army." - Orson Wells.

http://www.rookscastle.com
http://www.alchemyarms.com

I can very, very easily get you as many 2.5" IDE HDDs as you want for the cost of postage.

Sounds like we have a winner

PM on the way.