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Thread ID: 115525	2011-01-22 04:34:00	They don't make them like they used to!	tuiruru (12277)	PC World Chat

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1171651	2011-01-22 04:34:00	Hi all SWMBO has been turning out her “office” and presented me with her old laptop bag with the question, “Will this still work?” (meaning the laptop inside the bag). It's an AcerNote 350E which came with her from England in 1997. First thing – find the bloody plug adaptor cos the power pack has an English plug on it (they're real men's plugs those – even got it's own 3 amp fuse in the base. Mind you it's got two lots of woosy plastic coating round the two pain pins where they go into the plug in case your finger and thumb touch them as you're pulling it). Eventually found the plug adaptor so plugged it in, lifted up the lid and turned it on. Forty six seconds later it had finished booting into Windows 95 (might have been a bit quicker if the tiled wallpaper hadn't been made up of 4 photos). Anyway it's specs are: Win 95 486 Processor 8 mb of RAM 256 mb Hard drive 3.5 inch floppy drive Type 2 PCMCIA slot What I guess would be classed as a 10.5 inch (measured diagonally – had to look for a ruler with inches on it) colour screen M$ Office 6.0 I'd put a couple of DOS programs on it: Xtree Gold for file management and FX by Fastlinx – something for transferring files from one computer to another via cable The last time Office was used it produced a 16kb Word file containing a table of eight columns, 26 rows and three additional lines of text. It was produced on 31 October 2002, so I guess that was the last time it was used and that would have been very briefly. As happens with these things, the manual was long gone but I got on line and managed to dredge one up from a German site. I discovered that the diskette drive is removable and can be used externally by connecting it via cable to the parallel port on the back. In the empty bay you can put either a secondary lithium battery or a type 3 PCMCIA module. My memory's fading on these things so how highly specced do you think would this have been for 1996 when she thinks she got it? Of course the darnned clock had to be put right – it was 6 minutes fast but the day, month and time were all correct!	tuiruru (12277)
1171652	2011-01-22 04:50:00	ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/note_350c_ec/manual/350e_userguide_uk.zip Manual is dated at '95. Nice piece of computer history you have there though.	Cato (6936)
1171653	2011-01-22 06:49:00	Mind you it's got two lots of woosy plastic coating round the two pain pins where they go into the plug in case your finger and thumb touch them as you're pulling it). I have been zapped more than once for inattention with those plugs. You could say I didn't learn but when you get distracted you do odd things	gary67 (56)
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