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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:35:01PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest 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.
> 
> We have had XT laptops with 1 or 2 floppy disks and sometimes a hard 
> drive, an XT luggable, a 286 luggable and laptop, and I think we still 
> have three working 386 laptops one with 3MB RAM (runs linux slowly) and
> two working 486s (with 12MB and color, and with 2MB and no color).
> 
>  > > I didn't even know they _made_ 486 laptops.
> >
> >What about gmail with BL, all that TLS/SSL stuff?
> 
> Should work fine on a 486.  If you need a GUI don't try with 3MB RAM.
> Sindi

I can live without a GUI if I can run screen (or gpm as a last
resort). But how about download speeds from the internet?

Lee