Quoting Arlen Cuss (acuss@optusnet.com.au):
> Hi.
> 
> Ah yes, as have been said multiple times since I sent this, sorry about the
> lack of information.
> The system is SLOW, and I mean SLOW: 75mhz, 20mb of RAM, 540mb hdd. It's a
> ThinkPad 755Cs.

Oh pish! Slow.  My Sun IPX (33MHz is slow).  My (working) NeXT
at 25MHz is slow.  My MacSE/30 running OpenBSD 2.3 is slow.  RDI brightlight?
(IPX in a 15 pound case) - slow.

the Kaypro portable?  1MHz, IIRC.  It's under the 2 Apple ][s (1MHz, but
one has a chip upgrade that double clocks internally).

The powerbook 180?  Not so bad, 40MHz I think.

So don't even talk about 75MHz being slow.  It's enough to saturate
a T1 as a firewall.  It's got over 100MB of disk.  I've got systems
booting into less disk than you have RAM (soekris compact flash down
to 19MB).

You kids, you're spoiled.
We used to have to  chip our programs into ice.
Lost everything each summer.

> I've never considered putting the harddrive into my desktop (400mhz, 8gb,
> 64mb ram WinME Pentium II) machine,
Well, that WinME thing has got to go.  I think they only sold ME for
45 minutes.

> but that is a v. good idea, however I'm not sure how differently laptop
> hdd's are designed, and also my desktop
> is a slim-line box; not really designed for additions.

Bad design can always be fixed with a hacksaw.
I dunno if it's an IDE drive.  There are "little IDE" to regular
IDE adapters.  Then stick a nonconductive, I dunno, mouse pad,
under it.  No reason not to have cables and drives hanging out of
your machine.  Puts hair on your chest.