[GLLUG] Free Laptops

[Chick Tower]

Well, if I can't give away desktop PCs, how about laptop PCs?  I know, I 
know, if they're too old for me, who else in GLLUG would be interested 
in them?  I'm tickled to have laptops with 128MB of RAM and PIII CPUs. 
But here goes, anyway.

They both have 233MHz Pentium MMX CPUs, 64MB of RAM, CD-ROM drives, 
PCMCIA slots, and power cords.  Neither have carrying cases, floppy 
drives, or WiFi.

The Dell CP has a 20GB hard drive, if I recall correctly.  The screen 
has a bright line across it near the bottom, but it's really just a 
minor nuisance.  I think the battery works, but I don't recall ever 
using it without it being plugged in.  I think it has Fluxbuntu 7.10, 
Slackware 12.0, and Damn Small Linux installed on it.  I know from 
personal experience that Xubuntu from 2006/07 will not run well on it.

The Winbook XL has a 2GB hard drive.  The battery does not work.  It has 
Tiny Me installed on it, which was a pared-down version of PC Linux OS 
that might be no longer under development.  But, it does run on that 
little hard drive with over half a gigabyte free, even with its swap 
partition.

I doubt anyone would want to use one every day, but you could turn them 
into firewalls or routers with the addition of PCMCIA and USB network 
adapters and the right software.  Maybe they could be low-power home 
automation servers, or portable interfaces for enterprise-level router 
hardware.  The price is right (free), but don't call me Drew Carey.  If 
you want one or both, or have any questions, let me know.
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                                Chick