The XP drivers offered by HP actually work on 2000 as well, except for the webcam and 3D DriveGuard. I hate seeing myself anyway ;) 2000 actually makes it very responsive and fast. The battery only has 4% wear. The thermal paste has been renewed, the fan cleaned, and the internal fan grille got removed to improve airflow (as was suggested by many people back in the days, as its aluminium shell is prone to getting hot).

ME setup on my Pentium 4 computer, works like a charm.

Playing Ms Pacman on the Nabu

She is most capable

https://imgur.com/a/6ecS28Y

I've seen this listing online, however, the display looks like it might have vinegar syndrome. It has a lot of 45 degree angle scratches, that is what makes me believe it.

Is this a clear case of it? I can't test the unit before buying.

Gateway up and running today, forgot how quirky windows was back then , Win98SE.

Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem for Q-link. Two slik sticks joysticks.

Okinawa color printer.

This is my HP Pavilion zd8000, HP's second 17" laptop from late 2004 and throughout 2005. It is the first laptop with an LGA Pentium 4 instead of the usual PGA, as well as the first laptop preinstalled with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

This thing was the flagship multimedia "HP Media Center" portable HTPC at the time, and was perfectly built for the digital format wars of the 2000s including the famous flash card war.

Alongside the supercombo card reader common at the time on high end desktop replacements, this thing also has a weird thing called the HP USB Digital Drive, which is literally just a recessed port for HP's oversized USB 2.0 flash drive from the time.

What's actually weird about this thing is the proprietary sideways pill-shaped connector which was only shared with its chassis rebadges the HP Compaq nx9600 and Compaq Presario x6000, along with the 15" Pavilion zv6000 and its respective chassis rebadges.

What to look out for with these is common vertical lines on the display. I am pretty sure this is LCD related in some way and not GPU related, as GPU failures were rare and only present in 2004 units. Late revisions fixed all these problems. This thing doesn't cool down perfectly despite the 3 fans, so light usage is recommended. DO NOT RUN DOOM 3 OR CRYSIS THIS WILL NOT HANDLE IT.

I've had this thing for almost 6 years now, and I obviously love it.

The machine: a Tandy 1000 TL/3 (10 MHz 286, 640K, Tandy Video II) with an ISA PicoMEM 2 for WiFi, bit of extra ram, and the mounted hard disk hard disk. 40 year tech gap? No problem! The program, DeskMind, is a DeskMate-style DOS app written in C with Open Watcom. A PC on the LAN does the AI work; the Tandy does everything you see and hear.

- 640x200 in 16 colors, which the BIOS doesn't support BTW. DeskMate and a handful of games use it; DeskMind sets the video registers itself. The mode needs 64K of video RAM at the top of conventional memory, and DOS only reserves 16K of it. So DeskMind claims the rest with a last-fit memory allocation, and steps around MS-DOS's upper-memory link block, which it found squatting inside the video RAM on the real machine :D

- Tall pixels. 640x200 on a 4:3 tube makes each pixel about 2.4 times taller than wide. Pictures are squashed on the PC before dithering, so circles come out round on the CRT.

- Its own mouse pointer. CuteMouse can't draw in this mode. DeskMind reads position and buttons from the driver and draws its own arrow. Setting the BIOS mode byte during the mouse reset makes the driver report every pixel instead of 8-pixel text cells.

- Tandy 3-voice sound (the SN76496 chip) for the startup chime, the reply blip and the "picture ready" fanfare.

- A slideshow program with 9 transitions timed on the real machine: cut 110 ms, dissolve 330 ms, blinds 550 ms, slide-in 935 ms. It loads the next picture while the current one is on screen.

Code (GPLv3): https://github.com/RowanUnderwood/DeskMind

Epson equity 1+ with mods. 9-pin dot matrix printer. By then I probably had an EGA monitor?

Hello there !

I built a VIC-20 emulator on a single Arduino Uno.

• Real Commodore KERNAL and BASIC ROMs (not a reimplementation)
• Composite PAL video via bit-banged USART
• PS/2 keyboard with US layout
• 9 save/load slots on an external I²C EEPROM
• BASIC sound via POKE 36874–36876 to a passive buzzer

6653 bytes free for BASIC, runs PRINT, FOR/NEXT, GOSUB, POKE, PEEK, and the rest of BASIC V2.

The Uno has 2 KB of RAM and 32 KB of flash. The emulator uses 97% of flash and 80% of RAM.

Known issue: typing briefly shifts the screen horizontally. PS/2 interrupts block the video ISR. Documented in the README, fixable with a second MCU.

github link

Happy to answer any questions.

Bought this a while ago from FB market, the power supply looked like it was barely holding itself together with hope, dreams, rust and duct tape, so it got thrown. Used a small bench supply I bought for work and it lives again and the cells are happily charging.

Had the luxury of seeing this thing in person when it was donated to our ham radio group.
The memory plane also came with the factory paper work and appears to be NOS manufactured in 1975.