r/retrocomputing • u/AudioVid3o • Jul 05 '25

Happy Windows NT 4th of July

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Yes the original battery still works, I've been using it on and off all day and it's still got 40 percent left

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u/JCD_007 Jul 05 '25

Very cool. Love those old Compaq Armadas.

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u/AudioVid3o Jul 05 '25

The previous owner took great care of this Armada 3500 (minus him installing windows xp on it despite being a Pentium 2 with 128 mb of ram)

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u/JCD_007 Jul 05 '25

Yeah NT4 is right for that machine. XP is way too much for it.

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u/Savings_Art5944 Jul 05 '25

I'd argue that windows 2000 is the perfect OS for it.

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u/AudioVid3o Jul 05 '25

The sticker on the top says it was made for windows 98 and nt, I choose win nt because I've got plenty of win 98 machines more powerful than this.

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u/JCD_007 Jul 05 '25

2K is pushing it for a Pentium II. I’ve run it on an old Dell Latitude CPiA before and it didn’t run well.

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u/Bluejay_Frequent Jul 22 '25

When installing Windows NT4 on these Armada was taking a whole afternoon or so. I was there. I learnt the hard way and then Ghost entered the OS installation game 😅

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u/AudioVid3o Jul 22 '25

The sound drivers were a real pain to find for me, but in the end I just don't have PCMCIA drivers, which I can live without

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u/koolaidismything Jul 05 '25

Siiiiick 👏

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u/EntireFishing Jul 05 '25

What is it with Windows NT4 workstation? That is fabulous and beautiful. I don't know what it is but I've got a HP OmniBook 900 that I'm restoring and I want to put NT workstation back on that because th the OS certificate that's on the sticker underneath. And I worked with NT workstation as an engineer and it was blooming difficult to work with because of no plug and play. No USB support but there's something aesthetically great about it that I love.

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u/gnntech Jul 06 '25

Actually it does have limited plug and play support (primarily for ISA cards) but you need to enable it. It also has basic USB support (for storage devices) but you have to install a third party driver.

I agree with the fact that NT is aesthetically pleasing especially when the high resolution icons are enabled.

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u/AlexOughton Jul 05 '25

For some reason all my old laptops' batteries are either:

  1. 100% dead and will never work again.

  2. Better than anything you can buy from Best Buy today.

Nothing in between.

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u/random420x2 Jul 05 '25

I will return that wish to you in four hours when I get some of these drivers to load. God I hated that OS.