[vox] old laptop up for grabs

Ken Bloom vox@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:20:31 -0800


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I'd like it, but it looks like (a) someone wants it already and (b) I can't=
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make it to Sac State. I'll be at the meeting on Tuesday, though.

On 2004.02.29 23:55, Dave Margolis wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm cleaning up the 'office' and I thought this machine might be of
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> swing
> by my work (Sac State) and pick it up.
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> I've got an ancient laptop that is all but useless for most purposes, but
> works great as a router (or any lightweight function, even runs X ok as
> long as it's not KDE or Gnome or any of the other RAM-intensive VMs).
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> It's a Toshiba Satellite 205CDS - 100% Linux compatible...
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> The screen and the caseing are beat to hell.  The screen displays some
> weird distorted artifacts, but is plenty bright and readible.
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> Here are the general specs:
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> processor
> Intel Pentium 100Mhz
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> RAM
> 8MB upgraded to 40MB
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> video
> C&T ct65550 w/2MB VRAM
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> sound
> ESS ES688 (works great using the sb driver, the built in single speaker
> even sounds pretty decent)
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> hard-disk
> Toshiba 750MB - replaced by IBM 2GB (doesn't quite fit in there because
> the screws don't line up right, but works).
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> CDROM
> internal 6x CDROM
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> floppy
> external 1.44MB
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> other stuff
> IR, PS/2, parallel, headphone jack, serial, 2 16-bit PCMCIA slots (I've
> gotten this guy doing wireless with a couple different 16-bit cards such
> as the Netgear MA401 or Cisco 305)
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> APM works great under Linux.
> The battery doesn't hold much charge, but works pretty good for as old as
> it is...good enough for using as a 10-15 minute UPS.
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> I'd be happy to throw in the Belkin PC-Card NIC I've been using with it.
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> That's about it...let me know if you want it or have questions.
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> Dave
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