Sony PCG-F630

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ColbyBouma

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This is an old laptop from the Windows ME era. It has an AMD Mobile K6-2+ 550. Here's the manual if you want to see more. One weird thing is that the sticker on the bottom says PCG-9401.

I had a heck of a time with this thing since its USB ports aren't bootable. I should have tried building a floppy with millQ's image, but I didn't find that until I had already gotten my convoluted process to work :D

Code:
Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 80   12GB FUJITSU MHK2120AT              15.0    13.7    12.5    10.8     8.8

                  Benchmarked: Friday, 2021-01-08 at 14:05
 
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