wow that jogged a memory. I used to own a 400Mhz Inspiron 3500 as my main laptop through high school. Alongside that, I had a Micron Trek II which was a government decomissioned model, and at that time the HDD caddies were impossible to find and very expensive. I used to run Knoppix on that Trek II until I was able to get a caddy. 

this was in about 2002 or so. 

I loaned the 3500 out to a friend of mine, and it came back with a dead motherboard. That was the last time I loaned my stuff out, and the reason I lost that laptop. At this time though I was getting into 3D gaming pretty heavily and I was outgrowing the 3500 anyway. it had a Magicgraph 256 in it which was crap at games. I tried XP on the machine, but ended up going back to 98 because of better gaming support. 

I remember taking that machine on a field trip in high school, and 98 crapped out on me. had to do a windows reinstall while I was on the bus. Wow, the good ol windows 98 days. Glad they are gone....

I pulled its CPU card and stuck it in the Trek II which had the same CPU slot, the trek II was only a 266. stuck the 400 card in it.