Subj : Re: Minimum Viable device?
To   : Shaggy
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jul 17 2025 07:15:32

-=> Shaggy wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

 Sh> The other challenge I've found on Pre-XP laptops is finding cards and
 Sh> drivers to connect to WiFi. Again, I have managed to get my Pentium
 Sh> laptops to  connect to 802.11G networks, albeit with some effort.

 Sh> Let us know what you find. Love the retro.

My current writing deck is an IBM (not Lenovo) Thinkpad X60. 11" 4:3
screen, 32-bit CPU, 3 GB of RAM. Runs Linux Mint Debian edition just
fine.

One thing I'm tempted by are old 486/pentium laptops - just enough
horsepower to run a browser and a word processor. I loved old Toshiba
laptops, but the batteries are getting scarce unless you replace the
innards with new batteries.


 
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