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["Anthony Albert" <albert AT umpi.maine.edu>]

On 2 Nov 2005 at 16:49, sindi keesan wrote:
>> interest in the 286 is virtually nil and has been for some time in the
>> Linux world, and not even the 386 or 486 are considered viable platforms
>> anymore. At least in the US you can't even _give_ away a 486. Same holds
>> true for first generation Pentium, and I used to turn up P2's in the
>> dumpster as well.
>>
>> Over and out, James
>
>You have a particularly fruitful dumpster.  But people have been giving us 
>300MHz computers for a year now (in the US, a college town).  Most 
>recently a working 500MHz.
>
>We gave away a 486 laptop to a kid who wants to set up a nullmodem network 
>with it and are still using another 486 laptop.  Is anyone on this list 
>still using a 386 with linux?

Yes, I have a 386-SX IBM ThinkPad  with BL1, as it so happens.  Works 
well, except that the video drivers don't work quite right with X - so 
you have to startx, then exit, then startx again, and everything works 
fine.  12MB RAM, thanks to my good luck in seeing a PCMCIA RAM card on 
eBay a year ago.

Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert                     albert AT umpi.maine.edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
        "This is only temporary, unless it works."
                        --- Red Green