[GLLUG] Free Laptops

[David Crampton]

That looks like a power adapter symbol.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> They both have serial and parallel ports.  Neither seems to have Ethernet
> ports.
>
> The Winbook XL has two USB ports.  The Dell CP has one USB port and an
> odd-shaped port with three little tines in a triangle in it, with a symbol
> over the port that looks like this, minus the >>:
>
>>> _____
>>> - - -
>
> Those are hyphens in the second line, not periods.
>
>
>                               Chick
>
> On 07/05/2011 10:03 PM, Richard Houser wrote:
>>
>> Do either have both ethernet and serial ports?
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2011 9:59 PM, "Chick Tower" <c.e.tower at gmail.com
>> <mailto:c.e.tower at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>  > 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.
>>  > --
>>  >
>>  > Chick
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