Re: Lightweight Laptops???

From	wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Re: Lightweight Laptops???
Date	2013-03-11 15:31 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<khktbp$9su$1@reader2.panix.com> (permalink)
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In article <XnsA174B8651240DCSKJHNMW985780A@94.75.214.90>,
Computer Nerd Kev  <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>
>I say, do you mean that such wondrous distributions such as 
>Basic Linux are of no use? Why, when booted from DOS, even the 

	Yeah, I wanted a real linux that booted from the hard drive.  Finally
went with an old Slackware distribution.  After I found a couple of those
playing card size CF'ish memory upgrades on line somewhere I even had
enough memory to run X.


>Not even an X windows system is beyond its reach! Err, as long 
>as you have a spare quarter hour for it to load.

	I swapped out the teeny little hard drive for a 2GB ZIF SDD
plugged into an adaptor. It helped.  Still, compared to my (relatively)
brand new Dell C400 it was hardly worth the mWh it took to boot it... :-)

>Oh, that does sound like fun. I have a business targeted x86 
>laptop from the same era with a 100MHz 486, but that 
>"Tadpole" really is something special.

	Yeah, uses a little Apple scsi disc and cost something like
10 grand when it was new.  Looks like a Thinkpad.  In fact, Tadpole bought
unlabeled Thinkpad cases (and keyboards) from IBM to put its little Suns
into.

	I'm more of a hacker than collector, and spend too much time trying to
"upgrade" ancient stuff so I can say I'm still using it :-)

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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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