Pacific Northwest Compaq Armada 1571DM 1990's Laptop No Operating System

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For sale is a working vintage Compaq Armada 1571DM Laptop Computer. It's a great choice for playing 1990's Windows and DOS games, connecting to old hardware, and running Intel Pentium-era software, without taking up the space of a full desktop computer. It comes with:

• CD-ROM drive
• 3 1/4" floppy disk drive
• Internal speakers, sound port, and microphone port
• Parallel port, Serial port, and PS/2 port
• VGA port for your external monitor
• Infrared port
• USB port
• 2 PC Card slots
• Modem port
• 96 MB of RAM (which was a lot back then)
• Several GB of hard drive space
• Passive matrix color LCD display. It was a sluggish "budget" display even when it was new, but it works well. You'll want to plug in an external monitor for gaming.
• Large, comfortable keyboard and touchpad.

This laptop will not come with Windows installed, even though it appears in the pictures, as I will wipe the hard drive before shipping. However, you can find cheap, legal copies of Windows all over eBay. You should choose your version of Windows carefully to match the software you want to install, as software compatibility was hit-and-miss back in the 1990's. I recommend installing Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition.

This laptop also doesn't come with a battery, as its battery is now exhausted. Omitting the heavy, dead battery saves shipping costs.

Please make me an offer. I can either ship it to you, or let you pick it up in Seattle, zip code 98103.

Laptop is sold AS IS, with no warranties express or implied to the maximum extent allowed by law. No returns accepted.