Portable Collection

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_northernway.net>
Date: Sat Dec 6 23:52:31 1997

;-) Ward Donald Griffiths III head-scratched, yawned, then typed:

>Sam Ismail wrote:

>> Of course there's always the Unix laptops made possible by our friend
>> Linux. My friend once loaded Linux onto his 386/?? laptop. It worked
>> like a champ.

>I've been running Linux on portables since my first DEC 325SL about
>four years ago. What's this "once" stuff? I go back and forth
>every day with a (this year) Everex StepNote P133 running Caldera
>OpenLinux 1.1 with Red Hat CDE. Oh, there _is_ a 300MB partition
>that still has Win95 (it came preloaded) for playing noisy games. I
>boot that partition maybe every other week, it's not the default.

Sam had it wrong -- His friend loaded Linux "once," not the 542,000 times
required by Win95 before it might last 1/2 hour between crashes!!! ;-)

Oh, Roger: My vote for the "add-to-list laptop:"

The first internal floppy-based laptop, the Tandy 600. OEM'd by Zenith (not
Kyocera like the M100/T102/T200) and I believe somewhat rare as they went
over like a lead balloon (too bad - pretty good machine).

I run a Tandy 600 listserver and a Tandy 100/102/200 listserver as well, if
anyone wants info, please feel free to inquire.

Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger       | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch_at_northernway.net  | be your first career choice.
Received on Sat Dec 06 1997 - 23:52:31 GMT

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