Cool. I've got something like that running Debian. My think pad is a little newer, a P90 with 24MB of RAM and I put in a 5 gig hard disk. People like the thinkpad's small form factor.
Your machine will be slow but usable and those thinkpads are hard to kill. 32MB of RAM is not bad, you might be able to run X. Does it have PCMCIA slots on the side? If it does, you can have dial up, ethernet and wireless networking on it. Compact flash cards are another useful thing to do with those slots. A little research and surgury on the battery could replace the functioning bits, IBM's caddies have standard hardware inside them. There might also be a CD available, Getting the thing to boot off a CD can be a chore, but they are good storage when you can't get to your network with reasonable bandwith. Debian has a floppy set that works. They and use instructions are on their first CD of the install set. It might be easier to install a base system on another machine that can take a CD and then do a network install to configure the rest. There are plenty of text mode word processors available. What kind of text do you want to push around? Depending on what you want, you could even dual boot the thing. The Linux side could add networking to your old dos stuff. On 2003.11.26 07:43 Chopin Cusachs wrote: > > I was blessed with an early Christmas present, > an IBM ThnkPad from the early 1990s. It is a > 486 33Mhz with 32MB of memory and a roughly > 300MB hard drive. Does not support CD, but > has 2.88 MB floppy drive. Battery is bad, but > it runs DOS. No network, but does have serial > and parallel ports. > > Would like to find a distribution of Linux that I > could install from floppies to support word > processor and spread sheet. Anyone know of > something that might fit this need? > > Choppy > >
