My brother found this where he worked. They were about to throw it out so he grabbed it and gave it to me. I'm afraid it does have something wrong with it as it only works intermittently with random errors. I believe the battery is the culprit as the laptop wouldn't work at all when the batteries were installed (plugged in or not). And though it would power up with mocked up battery packs, it would still give me errors and never would run off battery power.
Either way, a neat little machine to add to my collection. Fun to tinker with when it works
I was also given this laptop. It's the one I mentioned previously. All in all, it's not a bad free system. Celeron 2.6, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, 470 days left no the warranty
Though the case had been replaced, it already developed a crack and the optical drive began to act up. But you know what, Dell took care of it