My Libretto 70ct | TheaterFire

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cowdog360@reddit

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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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

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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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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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

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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cowdog360@reddit

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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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

That’s helpful, thanks!

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deulamco@reddit

Someone somewhere need to remake this whole setup nowadays for the mass 😅

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

You should take a look at Gpd pocket laptops

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10v1@reddit

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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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

The idea of cramming as much function as you can into the smallest possible package is always cool.

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squeeze-my-lizard@reddit

Your first pic is probably the coolest pic I’ve seen of a Libretto in my life. Congrats, looks amazing

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

Thanks!!

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jc-from-sin@reddit

I don't know how to configure WiFi on windows 98.

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protekt0r@reddit

It wasn’t that bad. IIRC, you just had to install the driver and configure DHCP in windows to match your router. Also, most cards came with their own wireless connection utilities - I know linksys did. That made it easy.

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

I remember trying to figure it out from ground zero and was lucky to find the linksys drivers on internet archive. I tried so many programs before it without avail, then found a video specific to my situation on yt which was very lucky.

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stone_henge@reddit

I have a couple of these (well, 50 and 100CT, not 70CT) that I use with MS-DOS, No one bothered to make wireless drivers for DOS in the first place, so my solution involves the use of a 3c589 ethernet card and a Raspberry Pi running a stripped-down Linux distro acting as an ethernet-to-wifi bridge.

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

Check out Kevin moonlight’s pcmcia card project. It’s got everything and is accessible through dos.

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protekt0r@reddit

In retrospect, yes I can see how this would’ve been challenging.

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DeepDayze@reddit

The Linksys utility was pretty slick as had one of those Linksys wifi PC cards plus had a Linksys router which also had the utility in a folder on the setup disc for easy setup of the clients connecting to the router.

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apogeeman2@reddit

Half the battle is finding a 16-bit pcmcia WiFi card for these old 70s.

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jc-from-sin@reddit

Dunno, don't care.

I already have a pcmcia WiFi card that I use with some early 2000 laptops.

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

Figuring it out was a fever dream, I couldn’t even tell you how I did it.

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ChicagoThrowaway422@reddit

I know I've done it, but I can't remember how. That was back when you installed wifi cards, though.

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit

How tf do people manage to make such cool photos with the most random ass junk lying around it 😭

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Kichigai@reddit

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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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit

idk why people downvoted my comment lmao. It was just a question 🤣

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vulpinesuplex@reddit

Not sounding and acting like a total shitkid in bad faith would help

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit

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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Kichigai@reddit

Not a clue. Some people are just jerks I guess.

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The_Jwh4@reddit (OP)

I like orange green and blue, and put all my crap around it in a seemingly nice pattern…

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Lumpy-Valuable-8050@reddit

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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