I was preparing my very first laptop, Compaq Presario 14XL244, to restore Windows 98SE back to the laptop’s original OS for some fun. I have forgotten about laptop hard drives stored with it. I do not remember the last time I played with this laptop.
The first contained two installations of different Haiku A2 revisions. Sadly, I rediiscovered why these were abandoned–no sound, no USB–hence no floppy drive, and no method to interchange data.
The second drive contained another Haiku (Walter (Rev 42696)) with Windows XP:
What I found very interesting, since I have long forgotten about it, was the CPU Frequency app where I could adjust the CPU for overclocking that came R1/A2.
Who knows…I may try installing R1/B5 on this just for kicks…
I remember having some success with Alpha 2 or 3 on my old 700 MHz Celeron which might be like 1 generation newer than your CPU if I had to guess. It also had working USB 1 on Haiku iirc
Curious to know how Beta 5 would run on it, please let us know in case you do.
One thing that’s puzzling me though… how come the copyright is 2024? Both versions should be more than 10 years old by now
The copyright section took some time to appear–a couple full seconds. I imagine after I updated BIOS settings since the battery was dead. I imagine there is some calculation to generate the copyright statement.
Well…I tried to install the latest Haiku nightly, last night’s revision to be exact. It hung up on the yellow, third boot up icon and stayed there. So, Haiku latest will not load. Too bad…it would have interesting to see devices would have been assigned and useable. Oh well…next time!