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i'm looking for a old laptop to use for a scan tool, it needs to have a parallel port



thanks

I got mine for free by posting a wanted ad on a mailing list I'm on.
I still haven't finished wiring the cord though

what does the laptop need to have to be used as the scan tooL?

^^^check this out
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/b10scan/

thanks but i just bought one on ebay for $12.00

Hey i was meaning to email you about this.

That laptop I told you i had, i forgot to tell you the battery doesnt work so it has to be plugged in at all times. I run it off of a AC/DC converter in my car.

Glad you found one though. $12 cant be beat.

Any laptop will work as long as it has a LPT port for VRG's scan tool. I run mine on a 486 33mhz and 16mb of ram. His tool runs in dos (and only dos) so pretty much anything will work.

yay my ghetto old laptop can do this!

.hmmmm research time.

i need all the stuff on vikash's page stiPro?

ya the laptop i bought has 233mhz and 64mb of ram, no hard drive but thats not needed for this, so should work.

Saskatoon Subaru wrote:ya the laptop i bought has 233mhz and 64mb of ram, no hard drive but thats not needed for this, so should work.

OH! you don't need a hard drive!? you just made my day!!
the HD i have is totaled, so this will work then!

yea from what i understand the program boots and runs from a cd-rom or floppy drive, so my computer knowledge would tell me no hard drive or operating system is needed, hope I'm not wrong.

where do i get the information to do the bootdisc?
&where can i download the iso/image?

Yeah you can run off a bootable ISO image.

This reminds me, i should do a write up of my install on my car and add it to my build thread.

i'll be waiting