gateway laptop

[Jaye Inabnit, ke6sls [Permanent Link]]

Hi gang:

Tough question here.  The old 600MHz gateway with 196mb of ram now seems to be 
suffering cdrom failure.  It can only take 256mb of ram, runs as slow as a 
celery chip can, but it works reasonably well with blackbox.  Should I try to 
max out ram and replace the cdrom or put it in the garbage can this 
Wednesday?

Heck, can I even get a CDrom drive for it?

advice welcome.

Thanks

Jaye, ke6sls