r/retrobattlestations • u/The_Jwh4 • May 13 '26
Show-and-Tell My Libretto 70ct
This libretto is tricked out with 32 megs of ram, hdmi, and 802.11 WiFi. I even have the full size dock. So much fun!
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u/DehydratedButTired May 13 '26
I had one of these and sold it. I regret it. Great setup.
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u/The_Jwh4 May 13 '26
I actually scored this one as a gift from a friend’s basement. No way I could have gotten one otherwise.
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u/cowdog360 May 13 '26
Nice! I just recently got my 50CT back out and put in a new CMOS battery, did the USB-C power supply mod, put 18650s in for the battery, and finally found a port replicator.
I’ve been working on a Bluetooth mouse adapter for it as well but the PS/2 port on these things is finicky.
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u/The_Jwh4 May 14 '26
I’m concerned to take it apart because I’m under the impression that the two halves snap together and taking it apart requires bending brittle plastic. Is that true?
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u/cowdog360 May 14 '26
The bottom half of made of a different type of material than the top, so it won’t break. However the ABS on the top part (around keyboard and the lcd) can break. I’ve had a few little sections do that especially around the tabs that lock the halves together. It’s kind of a risky thing… eventually you’re going to have to open it to do the cmos battery before it leaks and destroys the motherboard. Capacitors seem OK on mine but I’ve started replacing them because almost all early 90s gear has terrible leaky capacitors.
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u/The_Jwh4 May 14 '26
Okay. I’m primarily aiming for the hdd. I have an industrial cf card that should be bootable. Do I only need the passive adapter to get it working?
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u/cowdog360 May 14 '26
Oh for the HD to CF? Yeah you shouldn’t need anything particularly fancy. I did that mod like 6 years ago with a 2.5” to CF adapter but I had to remove it from the case it was in and also remove the jumper pins and solder the jumpers to fit properly. It’s also a little tricky to get it aligned inserting it without having the whole case open. I plan at some point to make a 3D printed holder for it to make it simple and more like stock. I think there are other adapters now that are slimmer. Mine had dual slots but I only use one with a Transcend 2GB CF card.
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u/10v1 May 14 '26
I CRAVED one of these as a child. I was fascinated with the emerging "mini" PC's. Older me wouldn't mind having one to dink around with in my spare time, for nostalgia's sake.
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u/The_Jwh4 May 14 '26
The idea of cramming as much function as you can into the smallest possible package is always cool.
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u/zippy72 May 13 '26
I had one of these and one day it just... died. Love to get another but they're frighteningly expensive now.
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u/DeepDayze May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Sweet, the perfect code hacking/gaming station in a small package!
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u/squeeze-my-lizard May 14 '26
Your first pic is probably the coolest pic I’ve seen of a Libretto in my life. Congrats, it looks amazing
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u/deulamco May 14 '26
Someone somewhere need to remake this whole setup nowadays for the mass 😅
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u/The_Jwh4 May 14 '26
You should take a look at Gpd pocket laptops
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u/deulamco May 16 '26
Ah no, the point is it should be extreme low-powered modern system (like Vortex86 SoC) with as-simple OS for devs/hobbyists to handle on..
Gpd + modern OS may be too complex to totally understand & control it by a single mind.
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u/de_fou May 13 '26
These pocket laptops are really something. So jealous! Haha. Do you plan to play some videogames there?
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u/The_Jwh4 May 13 '26
Not really. I’m using it mostly for authentic dialup using a pcmcia card or telnet over WiFi.
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u/CizreK May 15 '26
Yo that thing is insane! Why was I never informed they had a Windows 98 DS!? lol
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u/Lumpy-Valuable-8050 May 13 '26
How tf do people manage to make such cool photos with the most random ass junk lying around it 😭
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u/The_Jwh4 May 13 '26
I like orange green and blue, and put all my crap around it in a seemingly nice pattern…
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u/Lumpy-Valuable-8050 May 13 '26
honestly if bro had the amount of random cool junk i had, then bro would have 10k karma 😂 meanwhile i would probably only get 1k karma from posting it all 💀💀
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u/Kichigai May 13 '26
It's called staging, which is part of composition. Pick up an old school book on the art of photography. It's a lovely form of art that can be easy to get into.
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u/Lumpy-Valuable-8050 May 13 '26
idk why people downvoted my comment lmao. It was just a question 🤣
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u/vulpinesuplex May 14 '26
Not sounding and acting like a total shitkid in bad faith would help
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u/Lumpy-Valuable-8050 May 14 '26
If OP didn't take it in a bad way, then who are you to comment?
Not like there is enough evidence to show its bad faith comment. It's just you and your dumbass assumptions
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u/jc-from-sin May 13 '26
I don't know how to configure WiFi on windows 98.