Re: Lightweight Laptops???

From	wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: Lightweight Laptops???
Date	2013-02-26 22:10 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<kgjbs7$hlj$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
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In article <XnsA173C4B7CDB3BCSKJHNMW985780A@94.75.214.90>,
Computer Nerd Kev  <not@telling.you> wrote:
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>Another laptop I make regular use of is my Toshiba 1910CS from 
>1993. No really, I do. I used this at the local library for 

	Well, I'm all for repurposing supposedly obsolete equipment,
but, really, a 486?  With, what, a whole 4 MB of ram?  What do you
run on the thing?  It's a PIA even getting Linux on one of those because
it's hard to find a useful distribution that will boot from floppy.  

	Hey, here's a cheap way to boost disc space:  get a couple of those
old 1" Seagate or Hitachi compact flash format disc drives.  They used them
in handhelds circa 2000.  Now a simple CF to IDE adapter and your 200 MB
hard disc morphs into an actually useful 5GB!  It's way easier than trying
to find a modern drive big enough to fit the carrier but small enough so that
the BIOS recognizes it.

PS- just superglue the CF adapter to the carrier :-)

>after less than an hour's work, while my T1910CS rarely gets 
>warm, and it doesn't even have a fan.

	Where do you get batteries for the thing???

	My favorite obsolete laptop is a Tadpole, an actual miniature Sparc
workstation with I think an 85Mhz SPARC running SunOS 4.2...  The batteries
are these giant NiCad rods...  Long ago kaput.

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Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 04:08 -0800
  Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-20 18:29 -0500
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 18:40 -0800
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-21 07:05 -0500
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 04:49 -0800
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-21 10:41 -0500
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2013-02-21 19:53 -0800
            Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-22 05:08 -0500
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 03:07 -0800
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2013-02-22 12:13 -0800
  Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 15:28 +1300
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 05:08 -0800
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-24 02:00 -0500
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 01:22 +1300
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you> - 2013-02-26 08:20 +0000
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-02-26 22:10 +0000
            Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-02-27 07:07 +0000
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-11 15:31 +0000
                Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-03-12 09:29 +0000
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-02-26 21:56 +0000
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 23:01 +1300
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-11 15:33 +0000
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-03-13 14:20 +1300

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