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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Hybrid BL1/BL3
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:49:15 -0400 (EDT)

Our 386s don't have PCMCIA slots. My partner says I would not want to use
the 486 (with 2M RAM) even if I could add RAM because the screen is hard
to read (and the drive is very noisy). His 24MB RAM 486 has a PCMCIA slot
and we once got a 14.4 KHz PCMCIA modem working in Windows, but the
external 33.6K is faster. So I will see what I can do with 3MB RAM and
30MB hard drive. We might have a 60MB (40?) in the other 386 laptop which
is similar but has 1MB RAM.

The loop BL3 would not have fit without modifying the file size but the
2-floppy to HD ought to. I figure 5MB ought to be enough for the
baslinux.gz (or equivalent) plus a minimal set of DOS commands and 1M of
lynx and a few 100K of kermit and lxpic. I will experiment first on
another computer with a network card and then transfer files there via
plip.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> > Is RAM in 386s and 486 laptops at all standardized? Are HDs?
>
> My experience with older laptops says no to both - especially RAM. I
> think RAM was strictly proprietary (i.e., peculiar to each manufacturer)
> through the 486 era. HD's would be more exchangeable, though I think size
> varied quite a bit on those older machines. Thus, while the cable/plug
> arrangment might be compatible, the sizing might forbid easy exchange of
> drives. For RAM you have another option, though: they used to make memory
> expansion cards that fit into PCMCIA slots. You're much more likely to
> find these - and at reasonable prices - than the older proprietary RAM
> chips. If you don't need 1 or both PCMCIA slots, this is likely the
> cheapest way to upgrade memory in an old laptop.

> James
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