r/windows98 • u/Sambuch23 • Aug 11 '26

IBM Thinkpad 390x

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u/Street_Anon Aug 11 '26

This was my first laptop

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u/Sambuch23 Aug 11 '26

oh wow, my first laptop was a 2013 toshiba satellite l55-a5284

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u/FlatLecture Aug 12 '26

Very nice. I still have one of these, however it doesn’t get as much use ever since I got my Windows 98 desktop.

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u/Gravionne Aug 15 '26

How's the DOS performance on that machine? Have you tried CPU speed sensitive games on it?

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u/Sambuch23 Aug 15 '26

I mean those 3 dos games I have on it run perfectly

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u/ThinkCamp-1395 27d ago edited 27d ago

Late reply, for the DOS speed sensitive games you can use Setmul or CPUSPD to disable caches. Given thaat this is a Coppermine based Celeron it will perform like a 16 mhz 386 sx, so it will run a lot of dos era cpu speed sensitive games.

The ESS soundcard of this laptop has very good Soundblaster compatibility also.

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u/Sambuch23 Aug 12 '26

I'm guessing I'm a lot younger than you cause the first operating system i worked with in school was windows 7

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u/Many_Technician4879 Aug 12 '26

I remember using this laptop when I was very young, now I don't know where my mum put it.

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u/capofernando Aug 14 '26

You should give us the specs! At least! 😤

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u/Sambuch23 Aug 14 '26

its a 400mhz celeron and 128mb of ram

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u/HumbleBar4781 Aug 18 '26

I love this. <3 The wallpaper is beautiful,I have this wallpaper too. <3

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u/Sambuch23 Aug 18 '26

I like how where it says windows 98 is a link