Thanks.  20 isn't too bad.

I stay away from eBay.  Tried to sign up a couple of years ago and got locked
in the middle, could neither complete the registration or kill it.  After 
about a
year I finally managed to kill my registration.    Maybe I need to download a
proxy bidding program  <G>

Choppy

At 10:18 AM 11/26/03 -0600, you wrote:

>Debian 3.0r2 base install requires 20 floppy disks, see 
>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r2/main/disks-i386/base-images-current/images-1.44/
>
>Couple of textmode spreadsheet app links:
>http://neal.nikkeibp.co.jp/linapps/ja/textonly.html#spread
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/sc/?topic_id=78
>
>There are many textmode word processors out there. You might like Joe or nano.
>
>John Hebert
>
>Chopin Cusachs wrote:
>>It is maxed out on memory -- can't support any more than the 32MB it has.
>>Wonder how many floppies it would take to port Debian to the box -- it has
>>no CD capability.  Might be able to get a parallel port CD to run.....
>>Guess I could hook an external modem to serial port.
>>Looks like a challenge and learning experience.
>>At 08:25 AM 11/26/03 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmm... that's a tall order. The small amount of memory is going to make 
>>>running a GUI painful. You should definitely shop around on Ebay for 
>>>laptop memory for it. And of course the small hard drive will limit you. 
>>>There may be larger hard drives available.

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