>One thing you haven't mentioned that even on a hard flat surface, most
>machines still gets very hot
>Those under clocked Celeron CPUs helps a lot in
>this regard. .

No Bill, I don't use any of those coolers.

Is English your native language Bill? Above examples usually mean
otherwise.
Not a criticism...just an observation.

bob_v

In
news:65921424-a24d-4398-8d8b-72bb343ee7a2@11g2000yqp.googlegroups.com,
Bob Villa typed on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT):
>> One thing you haven't mentioned that even on a hard flat surface,
>> most machines still gets very hot
>> Those under clocked Celeron CPUs helps a lot in
>> this regard. .
>
> No Bill, I don't use any of those coolers.
>
> Is English your native language Bill? Above examples usually mean
> otherwise.
> Not a criticism...just an observation.
>
> bob_v

You mean academic English? Nope! Both Mark Twain and I believe...

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
made school boards." -- Mark Twain

"I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain

"I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way!" -- Mark
Twain

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2

"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in news:hb9rbn$2f1$1@news.eternal-
september.org:

> I hate this limitation! I created two longer feet for the back end of my
> Gateway laptops that raises it up about two inches. And it does wonders
> for the temperature. It even stays cool lying on the bed.
>

At any electrical department of a hardware store, there's the ideal
solution, Wiremold! These plastic strips come in two parts, the base with
the sticky tape on them and the cover that snaps onto the base.

What I did was to cut a 1.5" wiremold strip the width of the laptop. I
used 1.5" because that was how wide the fan intake hole was in this
particular laptop. Match yours.

So, now you have a rectangular tube with the ends open. Cut away the base
(with the sticky tape) as wide as the fan intake hole, but not the cover.
Stick the two pieces of base on either side of the intake hole, in line,
with the open end at the left and right edge of the case. The tape holds
very well and when it fails a little contact cement holds it firm to the
case. Snap the full width cover into place over the base and fan hole.

Voila! You now have a dual-way intake air plenum the bedclothes cannot
block. Sit your laptop on any soft surface you wish. Air is drawn in the
open ends on either side of the laptop, NOT THE DUST OFF THE DESK SURFACE
UNDER THE ****ED FAN HOLE, not only keeping the unit cool on any soft
surface but also reducing by a LOT the sucking of dust and dirt into the
CPU heat sink and fan blades. As the Wiremold strips are only about 1/4"
thick, you don't end up with a nasty tilt stand and the unit lays nearly
flat on your desk on the wiremold intake plenum.....(c;]


--
Larry

If the laptop had USB ports, it is a near certainty that the PC Card
slot was a Cardbus slot.


SlickRCBD wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's just a single type-III PCMCIA slot. The thing has
> quite a few connectors on it including a serial port, a parallel port,
> 2 USB ports, a docking port, a VGA-style monitor port, a PS/2 port
> (oddly enough only one with symbols for both keyboard & mouse), and an
> S-video port. It also has a built-in 56K modem which was used for
> internet access by the previous owner that appears to have provisions
> to be removed. I think there might be one other port I'm forgetting,
> but I don't feel like pulling it out of the case right now. I won't
> need it again until Wednesday night and I've already moved the files
> to my WIn98SE computer via sneakernet. I'm giving serious
> consideration to buying an external 3.5" drive for my new Gateway
> since it's the first computer I've ever owned without one.
> It's an NEC Ready 440T
> Quite nice for the era it was from.
> On Oct 15, 6:43 pm, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> Actually, MOST laptops running Windows 98 have Cardbus support. Cardbus
>> mostly replaced 16-bit PC Cards in 1997. [***MOSTLY***]
>>

Somewhere on teh intarwebs lgreenwood@srt.com wrote:
[snip]
> Regarding your laptop w/o internet access and running windows 98, I
> managed to find a PCMCIA wireless card that I was able to get working
> for an old dell laptop Latitude CPi. It was a generic wireless card w/
> o a brand name and made in china, but it works good.
[snip]

My oldest laptop is a Latitude CPi A PII 400MHz ('Dixon', great CPU for it's
time) and I have a 3Com PCMCIA WiFi card in that too. Although the OS on
that is 98SE 2 ME, a hybrid system that is mainly the 98SE that it came with
but it uses the few things that ME improved on and integrates them into 98SE
(Google will tell you about it).

I have the newest version of Firefox that will run on 9x on it. I can't
remember the version number and I'm short a clover-leaf power cord right now
and can't be bothered pinching one off one of my ThinkPads and firing it up.
<g> Actually, the battery on that machine is still good for about 90 minutes
or more (I can watch an avi movie on it on battery).
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> In
> news:65921424-a24d-4398-8d8b-72bb343ee7a2@11g2000yqp.googlegroups.com,
> Bob Villa typed on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT):
>>> One thing you haven't mentioned that even on a hard flat surface,
>>> most machines still gets very hot
>>> Those under clocked Celeron CPUs helps a lot in
>>> this regard. .
>>
>> No Bill, I don't use any of those coolers.
>>
>> Is English your native language Bill? Above examples usually mean
>> otherwise.
>> Not a criticism...just an observation.
>>
>> bob_v
>
> You mean academic English? Nope! Both Mark Twain and I believe...
>
> "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
> made school boards." -- Mark Twain
>
> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>
> "I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way!" --
> Mark Twain

Yeah, Mark Twain was unschooled but talented. If you have a prodigious
talent to equal his then, by all means speak like a hick.... <g>
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

In news:hbc7qe$9pq$1@news.eternal-september.org,
~misfit~ typed on :
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
>> In
>> news:65921424-a24d-4398-8d8b-72bb343ee7a2@11g2000yqp.googlegroups.com,
>> Bob Villa typed on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT):
>>>> One thing you haven't mentioned that even on a hard flat surface,
>>>> most machines still gets very hot
>>>> Those under clocked Celeron CPUs helps a lot in
>>>> this regard. .
>>>
>>> No Bill, I don't use any of those coolers.
>>>
>>> Is English your native language Bill? Above examples usually mean
>>> otherwise.
>>> Not a criticism...just an observation.
>>>
>>> bob_v
>>
>> You mean academic English? Nope! Both Mark Twain and I believe...
>>
>> "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
>> made school boards." -- Mark Twain
>>
>> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>>
>> "I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way!" --
>> Mark Twain
>
> Yeah, Mark Twain was unschooled but talented. If you have a prodigious
> talent to equal his then, by all means speak like a hick.... <g>

Nope, academic doesn't control the common language and never has. It is
the common people who controls the common language and will always be.
;-)

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2

On Oct 17, 7:01*am, "BillW50" <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:
> Innews:hbc7qe$9pq$1@news.eternal-september.org,
> ~misfit~ typed on :
>
>
>
> > Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> >> In
> >>news:65921424-a24d-4398-8d8b-72bb343ee7a2@11g2000yqp.googlegroups.com,
> >> Bob Villa typed on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT):
> >>>> One thing you haven't mentioned that even on a hard flat surface,
> >>>> most machines still gets very hot
> >>>> Those under clocked Celeron CPUs helps a lot in
> >>>> this regard. .
>
> >>> No Bill, I don't use any of those coolers.
>
> >>> Is English your native language Bill? *Above examples usually mean
> >>> otherwise.
> >>> Not a criticism...just an observation.
>
> >>> bob_v
>
> >> You mean academic English? Nope! Both Mark Twain and I believe...
>
> >> "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
> >> made school boards." -- Mark Twain
>
> >> "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
>
> >> "I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way!" --
> >> Mark Twain
>
> > Yeah, Mark Twain was unschooled but talented. If you have a prodigious
> > talent to equal his then, by all means speak like a hick.... <g>
>
> Nope, academic doesn't control the common language and never has. It is
> the common people who controls the common language and will always be.
> ;-)
>
> --
> Bill
> Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
> Windows XP SP2

Twain's wit compared with Terry Pratchet...like a Spring
rain...compared to a dark tomb!
IMO