[rescue] WTB: small cheap laptop

William Enestvedt Will.Enestvedt at jwu.edu
Thu Jan 10 10:55:21 CST 2002


> 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
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI



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