[Noisebridge-discuss] Compaq Concertos

Corey McGuire coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Fri May 6 07:31:18 UTC 2011


Yeah, they work alright.  I'll have to dust off my SuSE 6.3 discs, and dig
up my PCMCIA CD-ROM and see if I can reunite the two.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:

>
>    - The batteries are in a separate bag,. but they are there.
>    - I believe there are batteries for all of them.
>    - They may not operate until a battery is install and until it receives
>    a small amount of charge.  I remember this to be an annoyance when they were
>    new.
>    - They use high quality NIMH batteries that perform very well
>    considering they are 20 years old.
>    - The pens require coin cell batteries and they are, all of them, dead.
>    - I have a box on my shelf of units with intact hinges, paired with
>    their pens, batteries, and keyboards.  I believe there are many working
>    power supplies in said box.
>    - They use 19v DC which is common for laptop PSU's.
>    - The hinges are indeed broken on many of them, but being they are
>    tablet dos/win3.11/win95 machines, it is not a remote portability that
>    they'd serve well as wall terminals for various functions.
>    - They run X Windows.
>    - There is a linux pen driver for them.
>    - They love PATA to Compact Flash Adapters, which makes them 100% solid
>    state
>    - I have a working win 3.11 image for them
>    - They are groovy
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There's only one power supply and it appears to not work (unless I picked
>> the two tablets that were broken to try). Also many of them the plastic
>> cases are busted, especially around the hinge pivots that causes them to
>> fall apart. also many have open battery compartments with no covers.
>>
>> Maybe a few that are in better shape could stick around a while ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:
>>
>>> All but 2 of them are in 100% working order.  Take a closer look.  They
>>> are donations.  If they are in the way, chuck them.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's about a dozen of these things...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=compaq+concerto
>>>>
>>>> Next to POLE 3. They're in various states of disassemble and
>>>> destruction. I haven't found one that looks to be in working order.
>>>> Unless I get poked, they're going into the ewaste pile.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rubin Abdi
>>>> rubin at starset.net
>>>>
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