My "secondary" computer is an old NEC laptop. Its 100 mghz, 775 mb hard drive (tiny), with only like 8 mb of ram.
Is it possible to install a larger hard drive (pref something over 1 Gb)and install a new ram card? I can change the modem card out w/ no prob (its got a 28.8, I can put in a 56 easily).
Can it be done (like on a desktop), and would it be worth it? New laptops are way expensive. My desktop is fine, this is strickly for the laptop.
BTW its an NEC Versa 4200. Thanx.

The good news is that you can get 3rd party ram for the 4200 (it will accept 1 additional stick of up to 32MB for 40MB total), and you can get replacement hard drives. The bad news is that new replacements will run you close to $500.
Personally I don't think it would be worth it to spend that kind of money on that old a laptop, but you can try crusing E-bay and other auction houses, you might be able to pick up good used parts to rebuild your laptop at a reasonable price. You really don't want to have less than 40MB memory and nowadays even that is marginal at best. If you can do it on the cheap I'd go for it.

To give an example why I'd think twice about getting new memory and disk, for about what you'd pay for 32MB memory and a new 4-6GB hard drive you could pick up a good used Dell Latitude CP with CD/Floppy/64M/4GB disk with 12" color active matrix display.

Just my $0.02.

Ok thanx Larry. I didnt know off hand how much a new harddrive would cost. Its just a good comp and w/new laptops costing so much these days I thought I'd try it out.
I could prob get a good used laptop off ebay for about the same price as upgrading mine. Thanx.

My7...
I also would go the "newer but used" route. One thing to take into consideration is that anything over a couple of years old will possibly need to have the battery replaced. Usually at least $100.
I only mentioned this because it just happened to a friend of mine.

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Depending on what you are planning using the laptop for, you could also install a completely different OS like Linux. Linux isn't such a memory (or HD space) hog as Windows is, and runs perfectly on 40Mb. You will also be amazed how fast a 100Mhz Pentium can be when you use a good OS!

But then Bill Gates won't be able to assimilate you into his evil empire!!

When I get around to building a system I'm probably gonna go dual-boot with W-98 for gaming and Linux for everything else..