Ron
That laptop has about 150,000 miles on it, over 3 or 4 continents. Its been rebooted at least 1000 times. I thought it was a gonner a couple of years ago when I dropped it onto a concrete pad from about 4 feet. Had trouble after that but I fixed most of the problems (like not booting!).
Hope you have fun with it.
The floppy drive is in the mail. It can be swapped with the cd-rom drive. With computer off, just pull out one drive and slide in the other. There is also a cable in the mail so you can have one drive in the slot, and the second drive attached thru the 30 pin connector on the back. Cable is foolproof, so you should be able to figure it out within an hour or so ....
Kristen - do you need any duct tape for the "Tru timeout station"?
Darn --- the gas prices are down to $2.05 for regular. I want to go for a ride, but its only 6 ºF outside right now. Wind chill of about -20 ºF. Gawd its cold.