I was lazy and bored. Too bored until I didn't know what to do on a hot Saturday afternoon. TV was lousy and it's too hot to go out. I decided to do some housekeeping. Scavenging around the store room, I found my old notebook, lying dead.
After the recent Edison Chen's fiasco, I decided to dismantle my notebook and get rid of the harddisk. (Not like I'm having any porn inside though).
How old was the notebook? Let's check out the specs. It was using the 1st generation of Pentium. It had 32mb of RAM and the measly 250mb HDD was too small for anything! (The current thumb drive of 4Gb is already 16 times its capacity.) And best of all, USB was unheard of. I bought it in 1997 and it cost my Dad a good RM5k then.
I had so much memories about it. I used it for my first internet connection. I conquered my C&C Red Alert and slashed and hack through the hell of Diablo with it. Yeah, I also did numerous copy & paste of uni assignments with it too. Too slow and too much wear and tear (literally, cause the lcd screen was tore off from the lower keyboard half) rendered it completely unusable.
The memory chips
The BIOS chips
Hitachi HDD
The battery and modem card
Bared naked motherboard
The Pentium CPU
12.1 inch LCD, with DSTN display. A current handphone has better display quality than it.
Keyboard & LCD
Rest in pieces
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