need help chosing an IDE hard drive for my old laptop

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

ok so my uncle bought me a working compaq armada sb laptop from a thrift store for 6 dollars he tested it and cleaned it and it has a 3gig hard drive in it but no os i did some googling and found it came with windows 3.11 since im not so tech save whats a decent size ide hard drive i can put in to install windows 3.11 on id like to go at least 20 gigs as i have lots of old dos games to put on the pc to tinker with for fun so help me chose a hard drive thanks oh and the laptop has a pentium 1 mmx 200 MHz and 96 megs ram max and a floppy drive no cd rom

 

[joex444]

I had a Pentium MMX 200MHz with 64MB RAM and it came with a 1.2GB hard drive. You may or may not be surprised at how small those programs are. If they came on floppy disks, think 2MB (if they were compressed on the disk).

Also you're probably limited to FAT16 and therefore 4GB drives. So... yeah, I'd leave it alone and not dump *any* money into this project.

 

[captaincharisma]

its a 200mhz PC. you won't be able to find anything to run on that thing. i am willing to bet it only has 16-32MB of Ram. that's MB not GB of ram

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

its a 200mhz PC. you won't be able to find anything to run on that thing. i am willing to bet it only has 16-32MB of Ram. that's MB not GB of ram

96 megs of ram and as of now i have 8 dos games on the way home from ebay

 

[captaincharisma]

its a 200mhz PC. you won't be able to find anything to run on that thing. i am willing to bet it only has 16-32MB of Ram. that's MB not GB of ram

96 megs of ram and as of now i have 8 dos games on the way home from ebay

you do realize you can download most old DOS games for free right?

http/www.myabandonware.com/

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

its a 200mhz PC. you won't be able to find anything to run on that thing. i am willing to bet it only has 16-32MB of Ram. that's MB not GB of ram

i like to collect them in box just like LGR

 

[jsmithepa]

id like to go at least 20 gigs

BIOS of that era may have the 8G barrier.

DOS games uh? oh well, records are somewhat back in vogue I suppose.