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On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:24:45 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > On 09/01/11 22:08, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, tom wrote: > > > >> If there is a little ram in them (64Mb upwards) then you can run a > >> slimline linux and do lshw which will tell you what ram is required > >> for the slots available... > > > > I've just been given an old Compaq laptop - P133 with 64MB of RAM. > > I'm not sure I'm even going to try... > > > > Gordon > > > > Let Roly have it, I'm sure he'd love the challenge. > > I suppose if technically you could install an older distro with > something like Abiword and use it just as a basic Word Processing > machine (maybe attach an old HP Deskjet or LaserJet printer to it as > well). > > Rob PII-133 with 64MB RAM is the same spec as my first Linux machine. It was good enough to get me hooked. First distro to play host to that hardware was Mandrake 7.1. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq