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Re: [LUG] Industrial Archeology

 

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

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