Compaq Armada Laptop with docking station and Office 97 (Ravelston EH4)

This is an old (1990s) professional/business Compaq Armada 1750 Pentium II laptop with a matching networked docking station in very good condition for its age.

It was originally a Windows 95 laptop, but was upgraded to Win 98 and now has a new install of Windows XP and Office 97.

It has been upgraded to have the maximum amount of memory the motherboard will support, but this is only 320MB and not enough to run Windows 10 or 11.

The CD drive has been upgraded to a DVD drive which is fast enough to play DVDs. The screen is 15" so big enough for movies etc., but its not widescreen with DVDs The built-in stereo speakers are good quality too, loud enough, but not that powerful by modern standards

The floppy disk drive has been upgraded one which works with LS-120 disks (much larger 120MB capacity) and normal 1.44MB floppy disks.

You can install batteries in two bays if you replace the floppy disk drive with a spare battery (included)

The power supply is built in, so you don't need to carry round a separate transformer PSU unit.

The docking station has a built in network socket, so you can connect to the internet easily with an ethernet cable.

It does not have built-in Wi-Fi and you'd have to get a PCMCIA network card (around £5 on Ebay) if you want to use it with Wi-Fi as the USB Ports are only v1.1 and are not likely to be fast enough for a USB WiFi dongle.

A combo Compaq PCMCIA Network/Modem card and all the original Compaq manuals are included if you want them (not pictured)

The docking station has a full set of the connectors that you'd expect from the time - Serial and Parallel ports, Audio jacks for stereo headphones and microphone, 2 x PS/2 ports for a separate mouse and keyboard, but only one USB port. and only VGA video. It will support pretty well any size of monitor as the weight capacity is

Great if you want to do all the computing basics - browsing, email, Word and Excel and even Access databases and you're happy with a solid laptop that should still have many years of life left in it, but can't really be upgraded any further. Kids and teenagers aren't likely to be interested, so you'd better check with them first

Various installation CDs included if you want them,. If you want to try installing Linux you'll have to get the installation media yourself

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**Not available for collection today, Sunday evening or sometime next week**