ABOUT:For your consideration is a 90's Gateway laptop, offered for a retro enthusiast to restore or scavenge parts from. This unit has NO hard drive, but does have RAM, original floppy, original battery, and a clean chassis ready for restoration!
Please remember that, while I am a retro tech enthusiast, I am not an expert on the specifics of any given piece of retro technology. Some small components may be missing that I am not familiar with, so please ask any questions BEFORE offerding. This is a piece of 1990's technology that is incomplete, and offerding on it constitutes an interest to tinker with the understanding of potential unexpected hurdles common to retro Gateway2000ColorBook CB486SX33 Laptop• 486 33mhz CPU• 8 MB RAM installed• Floppy tested NON FUNCTIONAL• No hard drive, but original caddy and IDE adapter is included• Passive matrix color LCD tested working in BIOS• serial, parallel• original super-anachronistic and 90's pull-out trackball installed• Original Gateway charger included• Battery installed and dead• Original Gateway PC card modem and NIC included• Original Gateway user's manual included• Original Gateway ColorBook leather bag included!• Tested to POST, floppy drive is AND TESTING: Laptop is in overall goodcosmeticcondition for the age. Screen hinges appear tight and the keyboard and trackball are cleaner than average for a laptop of this age. Passive matrix LCD appears good for the age aside from normal ghosting. Laptop was tested to boot to BIOS. Floppy motor engages but doesn't read a floppy, it is assumed that the floppy needs -at minimum- a new is a used,barebones, vintage laptop that is offered ASIS for enthusiastrebuild or collecting. It is not a modern computer and will require tinkering to findcompatiblecomponents. I am offering this unit to another enthusiast with theunderstanding that the buyer is willing toundertake responsibility for the many repair and maintenance variables that come with antique computer components including such delicate tasks as capacitor replacement.