Re: 486 laptop...
Don't know much about educational software, but you can use
older-fashioned CLI-style utilities just fine (emacs, latex, etc.). If
it's got PCMCIA slots, you can put two network cards in and make it a
router/firewall. If it's got USB (not likely!) you could put a webcam on
it and stick it somewhere you want to observe (I'm thinking about a setup
like this for a video monitor for our baby's crib). I have run X under
debian on a 486SL/25 (an old zenith subnotebook), but I wouldn't
recommend it.
ap
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> I've just inherited a 70 mHz 486 laptop with 24m RAM (!). It
> currently runs Windows 95. question: what can one do withsuch a
> machine? Any ideas out there? Anything would be great, but something
> educational would be great -- my 6-year-old would love a computer.
>
> thx,
> matt
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