See if you can work out how the left latch works, and whether poking something in the right place with that information would open the right latch.
Yeah, I like those wee Compaqs. I got one here from a garage sale for $2, with a DVD burner in it. I think the Win install was pooched.

Sorry, big city. I was lucky. If those are the parts you need, I think you got a good score. Is there a freecycle list for your area? (which is what, Bundaberg or somewhere, right?)

And yep, the G4 towers continue to hover around AU$100 (which hello, 25 year record high, is US$97 today), even on ebay and in the cities.

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I got it open, by jamming a screwdriver in where the button goes in, and then pressing the good button in the "normal" way.

Yeah, I'm near Bundaberg, and although there is a freecycle list, the only stuff ever on it is usually requests for working cars, requests for working, modern computers, requests for modern/valuable computer parts, baby clothes, old VHS tapes, 10 year old inkjet printers, etc, etc.

Either way, its now back in one piece, with a 40GB HDD, a Pioneer slot-load CD-ROM drive, and a WinModem. The Radeon 7000 is now in my Dell P4. This morning I put Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition on the Compaq. I had a Celeron 600 chip inside it at the time, and with that and 384MB of RAM, it not only installed, but also boots without complaint. Performance-wise, its a bit sluggish, but really not too bad, all things considered.