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  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] 486 Laptops/Gmail on BL (was: USB modem and wireless <blaah>)
  • Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:45:24 -0800


Greetings, Ron.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:25:23PM +1100, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:51:15 -0800 Lee Forrest
> <lforrestster AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:13:15PM +1300,
> > 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> > > Lee Forrest wrote:
> > >
> > > > If I have to spend $90 I'll just start buying up 486's
> > > > wherever I can find them.
> > >
> > > For that kind of money, you should be able to buy several
> > > 486 laptops. I love 486 laptops.
> >
> > I didn't even know they _made_ 486 laptops.
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, '486, 75 MHz, 16 MB
> RAM, but without a network card I have run it with a dial-up
> account using a serial modem, running Arachne. It is a bit
> slow, but it runs OK on just a few colours.
>

Sounds fun, actually. I assume you have plenty of swap.

Lee





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