Ebay, they sell for almost nothing. You will likely have to have the capacitors all replaced on the motherboard due to their age.

My local pawn shop generally has a couple at any given time. They usually have something like a 1.4 - 2.4ghz processor and focus their advertising stickers on how long much storage they have. Most run $100-150.

If you plan to use it with a monitor connected, yiu may find the mini pc to be more robust and in the same price range.

Dont underestimate the Pi either. They can do quite a bit thesedays.

Use a tiny Raspberry Pi and use a "Laptop Portable Screen". About $45 for each.

Get Dosbox working on the Raspberry Pi then load Windows 3, 95 whatever retro system you want.

That is how you make a Retro Laptop. 3D print a case for it.

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Originally posted by Agenda 2025:

Use a tiny Raspberry Pi and use a "Laptop Portable Screen". About $45 for each.

Get Dosbox working on the Raspberry Pi then load Windows 3, 95 whatever retro system you want.

That is how you make a Retro Laptop. 3D print a case for it.

Running Dosbox on ARM is not something I ever considered...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v4duYMZGvg

some of those old laptops got horrible screens
if you move the mouse you could see it ghosting
make sure you buy those with TFT and not dual scan

Originally posted by Agenda 2025:

Use a tiny Raspberry Pi and use a "Laptop Portable Screen". About $45 for each.

Get Dosbox working on the Raspberry Pi then load Windows 3, 95 whatever retro system you want.

That is how you make a Retro Laptop. 3D print a case for it.

^ THIS

Retro Laptops are horrible. Bad power consumption, heat output and terrible screen.

Originally posted by bythelee:

Pentium 2-3 windows 98 hdd etc,

where i can get those old laptops ?

Hmm, there were couple of questions. Are you in EU? How far from your house to community tech centers or recycled markets?
When there were no options near your place, will you travel to other countries like Taiwan or Japan? <=This may be the place you will get old techs
Sound like Master Luke Skywalker is looking for treasure

Old hardware has gotten expensive because they're apparently "collectors items" now. Used to be they were practically free everywhere.

I built myself a Pentium 233 mmx PC gaming "dream machine". I basically thought to myself, if money were no object back in the mid 90s, I was 15 years old, what kind of PC would I have gotten for myself?

End result was this Pentium, 32 MB of RAM, a Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 with 8 MB of VRAM paired with an s3 Virge VGA card, and a Sound Blaster AWE 32.

The tough thing about 35 year old hardware is that it's 35 years old. The machine works, but it's given me nothing but trouble.

My next project will probably involve me turning a more modern system into a dedicated retro PC gaming system using emulation and virtual machines. Instead of using actual period hardware, I'll just replicate the experience as I remember it through rose-tinted glasses, creating myself a kind of museum style setup.

Originally posted by keidashuu:

Originally posted by bythelee:

Pentium 2-3 windows 98 hdd etc,

where i can get those old laptops ?

Hmm, there were couple of questions. Are you in EU? How far from your house to community tech centers or recycled markets?
When there were no options near your place, will you travel to other countries like Taiwan or Japan? <=This may be the place you will get old techs
Sound like Master Luke Skywalker is looking for treasure

No i live in turkey and i probably bought them on local shop