Re: 486 laptop...

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:18 -0500, 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.
>
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/applications.html is Debian-based.
>
> But since it doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM or UDB drive...
>
> Woody, booted from floppy and installed via CD-ROM, using the
> fvwm wm and XFree v3.3.6.
>
> But, we can't give you any really good advice, since you haven't 
> told us important stuff like:
> - how big is the hard drive?
> - is there a floppy drive?
> - is there a CD-ROM drive?
> - is there a NIC?
> - is there a PCMCIA slot (to put a NIC in)?
> - which video chip is used?
lots of cool suggestions so far though.  but to be more specific:

-no nic (though could probably pick one up cheap for the pcmcia slot -- 
though maybe it's the wrong type?
- floppy & cd are external, don't know how well supported the interface 
will be.
- fairly large (3.2 gig) hard drive
- um, will have to get back to you on the video chip

thanks everyone so far!
matt