P75 lappies

[dunbar]

Bob Johnsons has some used Compaqs for sale for $90, before s/h/tax.
Not much better than a super huge PDA, but certainly a kid could love one (especially if you dropped in a gameboy emulator...)

Used Compaq LTE 5000 Laptop.
* Intel Pentium 75 mhz Processor
* 1 gig Hard drive
* 16 meg RAM
* 10.4 inch color display
* 3.5 inch floppy drive
* AC adapter
* Battery(Does not work)
* Parallel and serial ports
* 2 PCMCIA Slots
* No Operating system (Will boot to a C prompt)
* This laptop is being sold with a 24 hour warranty. We will guarantee that the unit will boot up to a C prompt. And that the hardware works.

The battery is the biggest hurdle, though.
EDIT: savvy users might be able to rebuild the dead one if it does not recharge. Otherwise, here is one for $85...
and another one for $69.....
/EDIT

[TOAD6147]

I bet these babies were $5-6000 in their day.

[Scott Tiger]

We've got tons of those old compaq's at work (they're 5100's or 5150's though) and I've got say they're tough as nails. Really, really durable laptops. They were replaced with newer,faster, much crappier Gateway laptops which routinely fell apart so often they were replaced by the older, slower, more reliable Compaq laptops.