Re: 486 laptop...

From: Matt Price (matt.price_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 03/24/05

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:50:42 -0500

    Ron Johnson wrote:
    > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:18 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
    >
    >>hi folks,
    >>
    >>I've just inherited a 70 mHz 486 laptop with 24m RAM (!). It
    >>currently runs Windows 95. question: what can one do withsuch a
    >>machine? Any ideas out there? Anything would be great, but something
    >>educational would be great -- my 6-year-old would love a computer.
    >
    >
    > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/applications.html is Debian-based.
    >
    > But since it doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM or UDB drive...
    >
    > Woody, booted from floppy and installed via CD-ROM, using the
    > fvwm wm and XFree v3.3.6.
    >
    > But, we can't give you any really good advice, since you haven't
    > told us important stuff like:
    > - how big is the hard drive?
    > - is there a floppy drive?
    > - is there a CD-ROM drive?
    > - is there a NIC?
    > - is there a PCMCIA slot (to put a NIC in)?
    > - which video chip is used?
    >
    lots of cool suggestions so far though. but to be more specific:

    -no nic (though could probably pick one up cheap for the pcmcia slot --
    though maybe it's the wrong type?
    - floppy & cd are external, don't know how well supported the interface
    will be.
    - fairly large (3.2 gig) hard drive
    - um, will have to get back to you on the video chip

    thanks everyone so far!
    matt 

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