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I have a couple of old laptops. So when I saw your post, I thought about pulling out the old motherboard, etc and installing a Raspberry Pi 2 in its place. Might be tricky to get the old LCD to work correctly.

Has anybody successfully got this sort of re-engineering working?

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A number of people have been successful with the DSI connector on the Pi, but the monitors you can use are radically different that what you'd find in a laptop.

http://elinux.org/RPi_Screens#Interfacing_to_non-monitor_LCD...

Oh and there is a HDMI to LVDS breakout board floating around somewhere.

I myself don't have experience with this, but a friend of mine tried to revive a ZX Spectrum with a RasPi 1. As far as I remember he had trouble connecting te ZX keyboard to the Raspi.

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