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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:17, Klenner, Colin wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>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.
Primarily I want something useable from it, perhaps a firewall, a network
terminal, or a basic laptop?</I></FONT></PRE>
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<FONT SIZE="3">You could use it as a internet gateway/firewall, as being a laptop it should be very quiet.</FONT>
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