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On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Grant Sewell wrote:
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... GordonLet 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). RobPII-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.
My first Linux machine was a DX4/66 with 32MB of RAM and 280MB IDE drive. However Linux was much less bloated then than it is now. My first Laptop still works (sort of - no display) and is a P200 with 128MB of RAM. It has Debian Woody on it.
My first Unix machine, a PDP11/40 had 128KBytes of mag-core memory (Later upgraded to 256KB of DRAM!) it had a 3MB fixed drive and a 1.5MB removable. It was a 16-bit machine running at 18MHz (I think)
Kids today just wont believe it ... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq