Amazing! An Upgradeable Compaq!!!

[araaraara]

I was working on and old compaq 486SX 25mhz. I took off the case to check the ram and hd and to my surprise, it had a 486 upgrade socket. I quickly grabbed a 486DX2 50mhz and installed it. With the flick of a few dip switches(aided by the jumper sticker), I had it running at 66mhz. Not bad huh? My teacher was totally amazed. And the even better part: we have about 10 more of these in the back room.

[krusty the klown]

Blimey! Whatever next? HP putting hard disks in the right way up....??? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[DanU]

None of the big-name PeeCees were built with upgrading in mind. After all... it hurts profits if customers upgrade their old systems rather than buy new ones.

I managed to get my winchip-2 240 working with both a compaq P100 and a gateway P133. Both of these systems totally reject processors from AMD or Cyrix.

[Ritalin Kid]

Leave it to araaraara to find the good in all that we truely look down upon...

[ragtop]

Some of those old computers with the bad reputations actually upgraded pretty well. I had a Packard Bell 75mhz Pentium that evntually had only the original motherboard, case and power supply left. I upgraded the original WIN 3.1 to WIN95, added an IDT Winchip 2, ATI Rage pro video, soundblaster, 48M EDO RAM, 10G hard drive, 40X CDROM, and 56K modem.

It actually worked pretty well, but you should have seen all the funky error messages that scrolled by during boot-up.

[Bob The Great]

Hey! Don't mock HP! They have lots of good things going! Like...er...uh...hmmm...well they...er...they don't explode very often! lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Ed_S]

Hey, those old "no upgrade" boxes were so good they'll never outlive their usefuleness!!
At work, they're some of the best low-maintenance office equipment there, and do the jobs just as well as the day they were placed in their current service!

....doorstops, paperweights, shelf supports...