vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Jun 8 22:08:48 2004

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:10:24PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
> I'm using a 233 MHz Dell laptop that was discarded because they lost the
> NT login password

Nice!

My "daily drive" is a Dell P-II 300 on which I'm running RedHat 9.0. It
was a freebie from a friend who cobbled it together from the scrap bin at
the company he works at, after my old laptop was stolen from a convention
we were both at. It was literally assembled from stacks of random laptop
parts on a shelf.

I asked him if I'd left my P-166 Latitude in his suite after the party...
he said "I didn't find any antiques there", and he offered to build me
a replacement after it was clear that mine had grown legs.

The only thing I really "lost" with the old one was two weeks of work on
ZDungeon that hadn't been backed up yet.

-ethan

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