Re: An ancient laptop (free if you want it ;)

From: Conrad Knauer <atheoi_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 19:40:30 CST

It probably works, though I haven't tested it; if it doesn't you can always
bring it back or take it to SARCAN ;)

Are you going to be at the meeting next week or should I drop it off/you
pick it up sooner?

CK

On 3/20/07, Tim Schneider <tim@timsworld.net> wrote:
>
>
> I will take it if it has a functional serial port.
>
> On 3/21/2007, "Conrad Knauer" <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Brian got it from his son-in-law. I played with it a little bit and
> >its not in the best shape, but would be great for parts, or even as
> >some sort of firewall or such :)
> >
> >It appears to be a 486/DX running at 33 MHz with 3 (count 'em! ;) 3MB
> >of RAM, a small B&W LCD screen, floppy drive, PCMCIA card slot, HD of
> >a few hundred MB. Battery is dead. BIOS battery is dead too.
> >
> >If you could find the RAM for it you could upgrade it to 16 MB or so
> >(and if you put DSL on floppy, you could replace Windows 3.1 that's on
> >it now ;) It could also be used to play DOS games, etc.
> >
> >Anyone interested? I could easily bring this to the next meeting too.
> >
> >CK
> >
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