[rescue] WTB: small cheap laptop

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

This worries me. Why are there so many parts for these machines on ebay? are
they loved to much that people want to keep them running, or are they so
death-prone that the only use for them is as parts?

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: William Enestvedt [mailto:Will.Enestvedt at jwu.edu]
~ Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:55 AM
~ To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
~ Subject: RE: [rescue] WTB: small cheap laptop
~ 
~ 
~ > Looking for a small cheap laptop that I can turn into a
~ > 802.11b wireless access point.
~ >
~    Buy a PowerBook 1400: they have two PC card slots, and you 
~ can run an
~ Orinoco card in one and some crummy 10BaseT card in the 
~ other. Cheap, too:
~
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&Sort
Property=MetaEndSort&query=PowerBook+1400
~    I dunno how you feel about such things, but I believe that 
~ you can run
~ some *nix-alikes on it, plus it's a butt-cool little system.
~ -wde
~ --
~ Will Enestvedt
~ UNIX System Administrator
~ Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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