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Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is used to browse some art over the network

The Dell Latitude CP P233ST has amazing hardware compatibility with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional.

TODO: Document how I got all those operating systems to coexist on the same partition; maybe using the spare hard disk from the Latitude CPi parts machine to verify the steps are still OK.

Specs

CPU

233 MHz Intel Pentium MMX

RAM

128 MiB

Display

800x600

PCMCIA

Two slots

Expansion bay

Supports a 3.5" floppy disk drive and a CD-ROM drive

Battery

It doesn't just work -- it lasts for hours

Quirks

• If you want to use the CD-ROM drive and the 3.5" floppy disk drive at the same time, insert the CD-ROM drive into the laptop and connect the 3.5" floppy disk drive externally using the Parallel Port adapter. It doesn't work if you do this in reverse.

History

• 2021-03-03: The computer arrives at my apartment from an eBay seller. The seller is kind enough to ship the laptop with a working battery, both Expansion Bay modules, a PCMCIA Ethernet card, and a PCMCIA USB 2.0 two-port card.
• 2021-03-04: 📉 I discover one of the RAM sticks is bad and remove it (128 -> 64).
• 2021-03-11: 📈 I insert a working replacement RAM stick (64 -> 128).
• 2021-??-??: 📈 The firmware is upgraded to the latest version.

External links

• https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/latitude-cp/overview