[CVALE] Old laptop

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:29:56 -0700, jon <jon_will at pacbell.net> wrote:

> My niece has handed me an old laptop (486 Dx4 75) laptop.  She would
> like to have a linux system on it.

I have a 486/75 with FC3, which works as an IRC terminal most of
the time, with Microsoft wireless card. I suppose I can bring it
and have it cloned.

> I've tried, however- there is no cd drive (duh- old OLD machine) and my
> one and only pc(mcia) ethernet card won't fit in the machines slot.

Are you sure it's PCMCIA card and not PCcard?

This laptop also has an Ethernet (NE2000 on PCMCIA), which we can
plug into yours temporarily. The system used to belong to my daughter
when she was 13, so it's badly beaten up and the card connector has
to be held together to work.

> So I would like to bring it to the installfest and have brighter brains
> than mine look at it to see if it is possible to install some flavor of
> the OS on it.  Currently it is Windows 3.11 and she would like something
> more robust.

I highly doubt the wisdom of this move. This is seriously in the realm
of retrocomputing. But as you wish.

-- Pete