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//SUSPENDED FOR NOW//I am looking for any pieces of portable vintage computing from the pre-1990 era. If you have any 286 trash with folding screens in your garages or basements, I will buy it for BTC. If the price rises above my BTC savings, I will consider mailing the rest in cash (PLN/EUR/USD). Of course I pay first, since I'm a newbie. Notice: Please don't offer any hardware in collector's condition, as I'm sure I can't afford it :D  Shipping to Poland.

EDIT. Brief description of what I look for:
-80386 processor or weaker
-monochrome screen
-should rather boot
-doesn't need to have any peripherals, guidebooks etc.
-any condition from "in one piece" up
-hard disk preferred, but not necessary; eventually I might be interested in buying one separately

Update: Everything will interest me, as long if it has monochrome screen. Later (past-'90) hardware interests me too.

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-DV2-1030US-12-1-Inch-Laptop/dp/B001UHOX1Y

I have a used one of those, in white. I'm thinking 60 btc shipped?

Well, I said vintage. Nothing past-1994 interests me.

Yeah, figured. But you did say post 1990 :)

I corrected it in the later post ;) I just need some really old hardware for some purposes.
Edit: I just noticed i got enigmatic again :rolleyes:

As far as vintage laptops go, a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX is the oldest I go.  

It was bought for my grandmother around 2 decades ago, but she rarely used it.  So it's almost brand new, except for any dust that wasn't cleaned off, or the issues that happen over time.  

The brightness adjuster is a bit wonky, and the battery is dead, but those are the only problems I've seen with it.


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Thanks for your offer, but I already have a 486 laptop (Toshiba T2130CT). I need ones older than this, as I said - preferably 386, 286, 8086 etc. preferably with monochrome display.

I have a really really old laptop. The internal HDD is so small I'm not sure if it'll even run Windows 3.1.  I don't know the details off the top of my head but I think it's an ~1985 laptop.  Bulky and heavy too.

If you're interested, I'll dig it up from my closet

tehc0w, sounds interesting. Can you provide some photos?

I have a Tandy 1400 LT (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1197).

Can you provide some pix of it too? Does it work, boot etc? How much would you like for it incl. shipping?

The cheapest shipping option I could find is 90 USD. Do you still want pics?

O_O Where do you live?

Las Vegas.

Give the pics. I will continue looking for cheaper services... if not, I may consider this option.

It's a Sager branded "Notebook 486DX Professional"

Could you take some photo of it? How much would you want?

Hello, I have an old Mac SE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE) fully working with a half dozen games and a writing suite. How much would you offer?

@Ashkelon: If you live in the US, I won't be able to buy it from you. The postage would ruin me :) If not, it depends on condition and attached peripherals.

I have an IBM Thinkpad 701C "Butterfly" laptop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Butterfly_keyboard). This is the laptop with the keyboard that slides out in two parts that join together into a full-size keyboard. It boots.

It's from 1995, but it's quite unusual. Are you interested?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1XMdLB-qEqpilzJ3PIFqGSAcDSNoh2Q3rBGJ7ur_SGgVdZmHaEg

ribuck, now that's cool piece of hardware! :D What's inside it? What's its condition?

It's a VGA display (640 x 480) with a 486 DX4/75 processor. It has 24MB RAM. It shipped with OS/2 and Windows 3.1 dual-boot, but has since been "upgraded" to Windows 95. I think the hard disk is about 260 MB.

I have the original box and most or all of the original accessories. It was hardly ever used - maybe 15 hours total, and was in good working order when I put it into storage. I'll need to get it out again and check that it's still OK.

I'd be shipping from the United Kingdom.

Here's a video of a 701C showing the way the keyboard slides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=478hsrVjVQk

Please check it, mainly the battery. Also write how much BTC would satisfy you for it. I think I'll have to send some pounds ev. euros by mail though.

http://imgur.com/UvpDx

http://imgur.com/bMWaO

Really don't know how much its worth so give me an offer?

It powers up but no OS. Comes with power adaptor, dock, some scanny thing, a modem, and another misc wire

Does this count? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Compaq_Portable

I have a Dolch-PAC 386 if you're interested. Orange monochrome screen, made before 1994, and the first ever portable 386 PC.

Edit: Offer suspended, I found what I looked for Not yet. interwho - could you contact me by PM?

no ask btc quote for the ibm thingee?

i have a Toshiba 4100XCDT
model no. pas410e-a

would that be somethin for you?

Unfortunately, my Thinkpad 701 has suffered with time. When I started it up, it reported a failed CMOS battery (not surprising after 16 years) and a memory error, and took me to the self-test ROM. This showed that everything else (including the hard disk) tested OK. I then booted and got as far as the Windows 95 splash screen before it froze up.

I will replace the CMOS battery and fix the memory problem and offer it for sale at BiddingPond, but it won't be for quite a while because I'm tied up with a lot of things right now.

@A0Down: For you it's old, for me it's a damn new computer  ;D Thanks, but I'm looking for another things.

I have an old Texas instruments Extensa 600
It has a 640x480 display, a pentium 120 and 64mbs of RAM.

It starts up, but the hdd and the battery are busted.

If you are still interested PM me and I'll take some pictures.

Pentium isn't older than 386, but thanks anyway.