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Ron Clarke wrote:
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> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, '486, 75 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 

Great machine.  I've got two of those.

> but without a network card.

Old PCMCIA network cards are cheap.  The wide ones (with
both BNC and UTP sockets) regularly sell for less than $5
(including dongle).  I've got three (one cost me just $1)
and they all work great with the built-in PCMCIA driver
in BL3.

> I have run it with a dial-up account using a serial modem

External or PCMCIA?  Old PCMCIA modems (33.6 or slower) 
are also available for less than $5.  I've got three 33.6
and one 28.8 and they all work great with the built-in
PCMCIA driver in BL3.

> It is a bit slow, but it runs OK on just a few colours.

I used my 75MHz Toshiba for presentations (before I got
my 100MHz laptop) and MagicPoint worked fine on it.  Big
line graphs (jpg) took a few seconds to come up, but simple
bar graphs and text were displayed smoothly.

I still use my 75MHz Toshiba as an Xterminal, networked to 
my main desktop computer (350MHz).  Heavy-duty X applications 
run well on the Toshiba (even when another user is running a
different heavy-duty application on the desktop).

Cheers,
Steven