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Quick update!

Well hello there!

While searching for the supposed Sega mega drive, I came across a really old radio: (by the looks of it, I can't find any documentation online)

It's functional, altough it's missing a few things, like the frequency adjustment knob, and the battery cover. It takes 2 AA batteries. It's really dirty, altough I already cleaned it a little.

I like it a lot, I'll try attaching some kind of knob, and taping the batteries instead of using the cover :))






Oh, and also, I found the laptop of my dreams on okazii, and ordered it for 350 lei. It's an old Zenith Z-Note Flex.

I'm not quite sure yet, but online sources say it either runs on an Intel 486DX2 66mhz processor, which would be absolutely ideal, or a 486SL, which tops at 33mhz. About 3 megabytes of ram, a TFT 640x480 screen, a very handy little screen above the keyboard, on the top left, which shows things like remaining battery, or audio volume. It has a built-in microphone and pc speaker, but to get actual sound from the sound card, external speakers are required. It only has a floppy drive, no cd drive. (very  sadly)

I'm also thinking about buying some new 3.5" floppies, because the ones I have are mostly full. I might also get a zip drive.

I am going to certainly make a review of the laptop, and a installation tutorial, or something of that sorts, for MS-DOS and Windows 3.11, if it ends up working, of course :))



Here is a review of the laptop, on youtube, posted by Jacob's Tech: https://youtu.be/0QQmP8y4ltU

Have a nice day🎉

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