On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine,
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Here is a better idea!
Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster.
Step 3: Install
* Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1036 04:36]:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed:
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Here is a better idea!
Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB
IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old
computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card,
Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on a bit of a
Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a
CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use
a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote:
To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard
drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk
about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by
people saying that flash
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows,
and I'm sure 64 MB and
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards,
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to
be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on
the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and
Oh... If you don't want to do the dumpster diving then you can get some
good stuff here:
http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_computers.asp?bin_id=worldpage=1Manufacturer_ID=CPU_ID=CPU_Speed_ID=RAM_ID=HD_Size_ID=CD_ROM_Flag=Price=order_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+asc
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