Re: debian on old powerbook?
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:06:35AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote:
> > I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145)
> > They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no
> > ethernet ports.
> is it that they really dont have any ethernet or that they have thicknet
> rather than standard ethernet -i have a powerbook510 and it needs a
> transciever between the mac and the rj45 patch cable.
> -havent ventured as far as linux on it -v small disk. It runs a terminal
> emulater and thats all i would use it for in linux anyway!
The PB140 wouldn't have ethernet of any kind -- it's a first-generation
PowerBook[1], circa 1991 or so. The 145 isn't much newer, and it
wouldn't have ethernet either.
- Aaron
[1] Well, maybe first-and-a-half generation PowerBook. The PB100 is
a machine unto itself. And then there's the Portable, but we won't
get into that. :)
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