The GE Spacemaker 7-7150B Kitchen Companion TV / Radio was released in 1987. With this 5 inch black and white under cabinet mounted CRT TV, I definitely might be getting too modern with a television in the kitchen. Looks like someone had it installed before but everything still looks almost new and It still works great.
I reused a hole that was already in the cabinet so only had to drill three more. There was a toaster on the counter underneath but I don't use it much so I put it away, I'll use my toaster oven thats also from around the late 80's. Easy to install and theres room above the mount for all the wires and a digital converter box.
I'm using a digital converter box that can output RF, composite, component, and HDMI; so it can work on any TV and can play USB drive media files. I don't get many over the air channels and the few are blocky and glitchy, wish there still was analog TV.
The goal is to get my Toshiba Satellite 335CDS laptop running Windows ME connected to WIFI. Giving it the ability to easily browse simple websites and even post online. I don't want to use proxies or a complicated setup to connect to modern sites either. None of this is very secure but it doesn't have to be, it connects to a special open network that only allows one device and shuts off automatically after a period of time.
I bought these new in box D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA wireless cards to try out. I already know the cardbus one is not compatible but could be used on newer laptops. The other one did work but the connection software did not, it crashed after I opened it. But McAfee Wireless Security 4.1 did work with it to connect.
Now I wanted to try a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card. The driver also worked no problem but the connection software was not seeing my access point. I updated it to the newer Windows XP version and it connected right away. I liked how simple and fast the Netgear software was so I decided to use this card.
To support the newer HTTPS forced websites I found the browser K-Meleon 1.5.4 that included TLS support but someone patched it with TLS 1.3. You will need the patched version for most websites to work. K-Meleon is pretty fancy, a lot of features like tab support and a really cool up directory button.
For posting online I'm using Notepadd++ to edit HTML which is even better than what I use on my main desktop computer (just the default text editor for Xfce). And then FileZilla to upload to a webserver.