It's a 500MHz, 1mb of L2 cache, 512mb/30gig, and it's got one good battery and a cdrw drive. (I used to have a second good battery, but that completely died for no reason one day.)

As another update, I got back home to the power adapter, and it appears now that either the power adapter is bad, or the power input board is bad. I don't know anyone very close by with a similar enough computer for me to test their power supply, but I am fairly certain that's what it is. The person to whom I had loaned it isn't exactly gentle with computers, and since I thought it was dead, I didn't take too much care not to set heavy things on either part. "oops," ohwell.