Totally! So called PC experts in modern days have not got a clue what its really like, everything is incredibly simplified now, however a lot of sloppy coding and hardly anything is optimised. Incredible what you could do with <640k Base Memory.
Really refreshing to read this topic and see there are other people with questionable sanity keeping these old relics going.
Genuinely in awe of your project. Some people will never understand this nostalgia
I have also been busy ressurrecting other retro laptops ...
most of which are somewhat dated ..
My aim was to have a working laptop designed to work in a specific time period with an appropriate windows operating system.
I have so far a single Toshiba 4500 running win 3.1
and have covered Win95 ,,,win98
Win 2000 ... Vista ....XP ...and win 7 ..
but draw the line here as I personally dislike win 8 and 10
..plus they are not Retro
I'm currently restoring a couple of Thinkpad 600x ..
One will be a 98SE gaming laptop ...and the other is earmarked for ME ..
which then only leaves NT (NT4) to deal with ..
I'll post some pics up when I have time..
Assuming you want to see them ?
rgds
VS