[wellylug] Use for Older Laptop

Ian Beardslee uulug at falcons.co.nz
Thu Aug 28 22:15:21 NZST 2003


I've got a couple of deadish digital laptops that were 'retired' from work (P200 32MB 4GB).  If it sort of works I refuse on principle to throw it away - I'm a genuine hoarder :-)

One has a dead harddisk and screen, but it boots from the CD nicely and can use an external monitor.  This is the one that was recovered by the police after being burgled last year.  I aim to set that one up as a firewall - boot from CD (unless I can find a cheap laptop harddisk - anyone?)

The other works fine although the screen has a nice red tint to it - I probably won't use X on it but I'll set it up as a basic laptop to play with apache, perl, and all those fun things.  Great for curling up in front of the fire on a cold wet night and thinking coding thoughts - hmmm ... I probably need to get out more :-)

Ian

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[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Klenner, Colin
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 2:18 p.m.
To: 'wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz'
Subject: [wellylug] Use for Older Laptop


I have recently been given an older Toshiba Laptop - 80486 c/w 40Mb RAM and
3Gb HDD
It does not boot from the CDROM and has no Operating System on it.
It has a couple of PCMCIA slots - a 10/100 3Com NIC and a 33.6k Xircom
modem.
The battery is good for about 1 hour at a time.

What do you suggest I use this for? I will bring to the next meeting as an
interesting challenge.

Primarily I want something useable from it, perhaps a firewall, a network
terminal, or a basic laptop?

Colin Klenner
colink at clear.net.nz
SIGF

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