1 year ago I bought an IBM TP600 on ebay for $350. Replaced the 2.3 gb drive wiith a 20GB Travelstar (ebay for $100) and replaced teh 266 processor to a 300 (ebay again $55) This machine is actually now a very valuable machine to me. I have run eD2.4 and now SuSE 7.2 P. Runs the 2.4.9 kernel and win4lin with windows 98 SE. I use ICEWM for th eWM and it is actually quite usable. A Linksys wireless card for when I'm at another location and a Xircom modem/nic for at the office. I love this old thing!
Mike Net Llama wrote: > See http://linux-laptop.net > > --- Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, I am thinking of this thing mainly as an mp3 player. I can >> imagine >> using it on the road as a word processor (vi). So, I was thinking >> about >> looking for an el cheapo, maybe a used one which might go for only a >> few hundred. My major concern is linux compatibility. I can imagine >> all >> sorts of problems with built in sound cards, for example. >> >> Joel >> >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:08:35PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:16:11PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >> > >I would like to get an old laptop so I can play mp3's anywhere I >> want (in the >> > >office catching up on weekends, like right now, in the car on those >> long trips, etc.) I wouldn't need to run kde. Any suggestions for an >> old laptop >> > >that would easily install Caldera 2.4 or Redhat 7.1 and play mp3's? >> > >It just needs a sound card, about 10 gigs hd, an NIC, and a fast >> enuf cpu, >> > >I think. >> > >> > Joel: >> > >> > How cheap is cheap? I've gotten new IBM A20s for about a grand >> which work >> > great with Linux. I swear by the IBM ThinkPads as much because of >> great >> > warranty support from IBM as for their overall quality and >> reliability. > > ===== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > -- Mike Holdeman COL eD2.4 Kernel 2.4.9 Win4Lin 3.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
