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Simon Robert wrote: > from the bottom of a cupboard I have excavated a compaq LTE Lite 4/25 > series 2810H. This is a very early laptop. It consists of a docking > station and a slide in laptop unit. It runs windows 3.1 and appears to > have 8091 or something HD. > > Googling this it does seem that it may still be useful. The docking > station will take an ethernet card, early linux's can be installed > (there are a couple of sites abou t doing this) etc.. I am pretty > surprised at how quick 3.1 was compared to today's bloatware (windoze is > the slowest but our beloved gnomes and kde's ain't that much better.) > Mind you this software does very little compared to todays stuff. > > I'd be tempted to leave 3.1 and all the lotus 123, win sock, netscape > etc software on it as an historical record. It has a lot of period > software on it. Anyhow getting to the point, although its nice to muck > about with it (just about to stick the 57k modem onto it) I have no real > use for this historically interesting piece of tech and it'll probably > get binned eventually. > > Does anyone collect this stuff? If you do and you can collect it is > yours! If you'd like photos of it mail me off list. Be a shame to bin > this I think.... > > Simon > Sounds interesting :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html