Literally found it at the roadside today, it powers up and all the hardware works! There's my node!
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That’s a big node you’ve got there…
Ha! I could have popped into Radio Shack and paid for some Pi bits I suppose, stuffed it with Umbrel. It would have made a nicer ornament, but I wouldn't have learned so much.
Thrift is a virtue my friend. 💪🏼
Update - 6 weeks later it's still syncing the blockchain. It got to 72% downloaded and crashed, had to start again LOL.
The MK 2 has already overtaken it
I love my ThinkPad. It is a tank. 
Cheap as chips and I can still run old Windows on them as well if I need to.
I’m running Ubuntu 22 on this one.