Old Compaq Armada 7730MT
Already for a long time I have been idle with an old laptop Compaq Armada 7730MT. Once upon a time Windows 98 stood on it and it was possible to play Starcraft, but at some point the hard ordered to live long and it was abandoned in the closet. Now, in connection with the planned relocation, old things, once abandoned in the closet, began to be thrown away, among which this curiosity was found. Naturally, it was a pity to throw it away, but there was simply no place to apply it. And so the idea was born to bring it into working condition (good for nothing but replacing hard with it), and it was decided to give it in good hands.
Perhaps one of you, or your friends, collects almost such museum exhibits or owns any collection of old equipment, like the museum of video cards in Kharkov - please unsubscribe in a personal. The laptop went to Ivano-Frankivsk to comrade monohrom , who owns an interesting museum . Thank you all!
Under the cat 19 photos of the laptop and some more technical information.
In the process of searching for the specifications of this notebook, in order to determine which linux distribution you can get on it, an advertisement was found to sell its more powerful counterpart of the same model, dated 2006, where the seller requested more than 4 thousand rubles. It’s a lot or a little while to judge you.
Actually, the desired characteristics: Pentium MMX 166MHz 32MB 2GB 12in SVGA TFT ( more detailed )
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As I mentioned above, the HDD was replaced. In place of the old 2 gigabyte drive, there was another, still alive, 1.4 gigabyte drive made by IBM, taken from a similar, but unfortunately, completely dead Compaq Armada 4131T laptop. It was noticed that on the loop connecting the hard and the basket is the production date - 1996, which indirectly indicates the date of the appearance of this miracle into the world.
In fairness, I note that on board this disk has as many as 96KB of cache and oddly enough, but the disk of that time supports SMART and here are its indicators:
Also, an attempt was made to restore at least some capacity of a dead battery, but, unfortunately, it was not crowned with success.
The igamity user suggests that you can replace the CD-ROM with a second battery to increase battery life.
Some more information from the system itself:
cat / proc / cpuinfo:
cat / proc / meminfo:
lspci: more detailed output (lspci -vv)
And then there are photos of the laptop itself with comments.
Appearance:
On the left side of the front panel there are 4 LEDs, on the right is a CD-ROM, between them is the HDD bay:
Left side. There is only the cooling system grille and battery compartment:
Yes, the laptop has retractable legs for more comfortable work:
A set of ports - COM, LPT, docking station connector, VGA, PS / 2, IrDA, power, jacks for headphones, microphone and line-in. There is also a stub on RJ-11/45, but it’s empty:
Right side. 2 PCMCIA connectors, one of them has a modem and 2 more connectors of an unidentified type:
Actually connectors closer:
Matt! screen:
German keyboard + stickers of the Ukrainian layout, as well as a strain gauge joystick :
We are loading. BIOS is missing. 32MB of RAM:
Went to download DSL:
Loaded, all type-top:
The modularity of the components is good:
The bottom of the laptop, 2 memory compartments, 16MB memory bar (16MB soldered on the motherboard):
CD-ROM, 97 year of production:
1.4G HDD IBM-DMCA-21440:
Dead battery. Even now, not all vendors make a battery capacity test button:
USRobotics 14.4 / 28.8k Bonus Modem:
In comparison with Acer 1830TZ:
Under the cat 19 photos of the laptop and some more technical information.
In the process of searching for the specifications of this notebook, in order to determine which linux distribution you can get on it, an advertisement was found to sell its more powerful counterpart of the same model, dated 2006, where the seller requested more than 4 thousand rubles. It’s a lot or a little while to judge you.
Actually, the desired characteristics: Pentium MMX 166MHz 32MB 2GB 12in SVGA TFT ( more detailed )
')
As I mentioned above, the HDD was replaced. In place of the old 2 gigabyte drive, there was another, still alive, 1.4 gigabyte drive made by IBM, taken from a similar, but unfortunately, completely dead Compaq Armada 4131T laptop. It was noticed that on the loop connecting the hard and the basket is the production date - 1996, which indirectly indicates the date of the appearance of this miracle into the world.
In fairness, I note that on board this disk has as many as 96KB of cache and oddly enough, but the disk of that time supports SMART and here are its indicators:
[ IBM-DMCA-21440 (C58C52G1723) ] ID 01 Raw Read Error Rate 20 100 86 2 OK 02 Throughput Performance 50 100 100 0 OK 03 Spinup Time 20 114 82 1 OK 04 Start/Stop Count 84 100 100 5324 OK 05 Realloc Sector Count 6 34 1 346 OK 07 Seek Error Rate 20 100 66 1 OK 08 Seek Time Performance 20 100 100 0 OK 09 Power-On Time Count 20 100 100 3423 OK 0A Spinup Retry Count 60 90 86 50 OK 0C Power Cycle Count 84 100 100 1884 OK DC Disk Shift 1 89 1 75300867 OK Also, an attempt was made to restore at least some capacity of a dead battery, but, unfortunately, it was not crowned with success.
The igamity user suggests that you can replace the CD-ROM with a second battery to increase battery life.
Some more information from the system itself:
cat / proc / cpuinfo:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 4 model name : Pentium MMX stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 166.590 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx bogomips : 332.59 cat / proc / meminfo:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 30273536 29208576 1064960 0 782336 12976128 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 29564 kB MemFree: 1040 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 764 kB Cached: 12672 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 8612 kB Inactive: 4848 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 29564 kB LowFree: 1040 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB lspci: more detailed output (lspci -vv)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) 00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86cM65 [Aurora64V+] (rev 43) 00:0e.0 ISA bridge: Compaq Computer Corporation MIS-L (rev 04) 00:0e.1 IDE interface: Compaq Computer Corporation Triflex Dual EIDE Controller (rev 03) And then there are photos of the laptop itself with comments.
Appearance:
On the left side of the front panel there are 4 LEDs, on the right is a CD-ROM, between them is the HDD bay:
Left side. There is only the cooling system grille and battery compartment:
Yes, the laptop has retractable legs for more comfortable work:
A set of ports - COM, LPT, docking station connector, VGA, PS / 2, IrDA, power, jacks for headphones, microphone and line-in. There is also a stub on RJ-11/45, but it’s empty:
Right side. 2 PCMCIA connectors, one of them has a modem and 2 more connectors of an unidentified type:
Actually connectors closer:
Matt! screen:
German keyboard + stickers of the Ukrainian layout, as well as a strain gauge joystick :
We are loading. BIOS is missing. 32MB of RAM:
Went to download DSL:
Loaded, all type-top:
The modularity of the components is good:
The bottom of the laptop, 2 memory compartments, 16MB memory bar (16MB soldered on the motherboard):
CD-ROM, 97 year of production:
1.4G HDD IBM-DMCA-21440:
Dead battery. Even now, not all vendors make a battery capacity test button:
USRobotics 14.4 / 28.8k Bonus Modem:
In comparison with Acer 1830TZ:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143456/
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