1997 Toshiba Techra

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krzyzewski5

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I just came across an old laptop Toshiba Techra in my house running Windows 95. In the near future, I would like to conduct some reconfiguration of this unit. However, before I start it, I was wondering if any computer engineers out there know if it is possible to reconfigure this machine to run Windows XP or possibly Windows 7 or if it would be a waste of time. This machine at one point ran on Windows 98, NT, and 2000 before it was switched back to Windows 95.
 
No way on XP or 7 cpu isnt up to speed for either. its just a tad shy from being XP minimum on cpu (233 mhz - yours has 166mhz) even if it did meet minimum it wouldnt be worth using. i suggest finding a small linux flavor to put on it just to mess around with but that thing is slow, you would have more fun throwing it off a building.
 
Or put on windows xp :P

Seriously though, my oldest laptop was I think 233mhz, started with 64mb of ram but i did upgrade it to 96 then 190mb. The whole time win xp was on it though, and while it def wasn't speedy it was completely usable.

xp wont check for minimum specs. So I'd say try xp, if it's too slow or whatever, then go to one of the ones you don't really want to use.
 
You'd probably have a difficult if not impossible time finding chipset or video drivers to work with XP.

Old computers should stick with old OSes. If that laptop has even the bigger 4GB hard drive, you'd have room for nothing but Windows, never mind programs.
 
Windows 98 or 2000 with 64 to 160mb of RAM will be the best operating systems on there, to make it usable. Had XP on a 233MHz CPU / 64MB RAM once, and I swore never again, lol
 
windows 2000 was good to me and my old laptop never had a probably, apart from no native wpa support, would def be a good choice for ur laptop
 
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