Ultra old Compaq LTE Laptop review

:For special interested:
I had this laptop for a long time, and decided to make another "silent review".


Here are most of the specs; Compaq LTE/286, 12 MHz Intel 80C286, 640Kb ram, CGA Display adapter and 4bit grayscale wide flat display, DOS 6.22 (3.3 or 3.31 orginal), 21Mb 3,5inch harddrive, 1.2Meg floppy drive -it reads 1.44mb disks, but cannot write, but it prefer 720k disks and has about 5hrs of battery time (!). I have lost the power-supply (or, actually the previous owner did) so while I used a temporary one, the backlight of the display got busted. Probably bacause of to high voltage (7Volts, it should actually only have 6Volt power supply or so, 4.8 - 5.5 on battery, and here i put 7?... damn)

There is nothing else wrong with it, no bad sectors on harddrive, a Connor model 4021, who have a reputation to fail.
Just recently I have replaced the CMOS battery. Good thing I found a copy of the diagnostics disk (bios)... Since it need special software to change\flash CMOS\Bios settings.

There is not much more it can be used for, I usually write something in WordPerfect 5.1 every now and then, sometimes several years between, just because... well, its fun to read something I wrote several years ago.

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[WindowsLover6767]

Lte/286.... hmm.... how about the slt/286? XD

[Da9eI]

@WindowsLover6767 **google search**.... WHOAH, that is a beast, I like it :D I have seen bigger portables, but this one still looks like a laptop. Seems to go for $300 at ebay, nice! Thanks, never knew that one existed.

[TheDonaldido]

Have you got any idea how much they cost second hand? Because I have one, but I can't find anything about it on the internet...

[Da9eI]

@TheDonaldido not really sure, there is only one on ebay for the moment, starting at $30. Probably not worth much yet...

[WindowsLover6767]

@Da9eI We all learn new things. ;) I didn't know the LTE existed! :D

[TheDonaldido]

@Da9eI Shit. I thought it was pretty rare...

[BlueRollinCoal]

This was my first computer... O.o

[wellivea1]

"Spill"

[thatchampishea]

looooooool!!!



[Xabu47]

I have one buttt it don't have the battery :s