[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[Sam Tetherow]

It ran whatever the appropriate version of debian was at the time. We 
had one in the office in the mid 90s when it was a current machine and 
we ran debian on it. Only issues we had were PCMCIA issues which were 
either with softmodems, cardbus cards or general flakiness in the PCMCIA 
packages at the time. I remember lots of fiddling and recompiles of the 
most recent source for PCMCIA at the time.

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Bill Brush wrote:
> Ok, so I had a relic of an earlier age come across my desk a few weeks
> ago, and I have this growing urge to try to do something with it to
> make it useful.  It's a Thinkpad 701cs with the unique butterfly
> keyboard.  Processor-wise it's a 486DX4-75, and it has 24MB of RAM.
>
> It has a PC-card slot, and I might be able to dig up an ethernet PC
> card, and it has a floppy drive.  No CD drive though.
>
> Anyone know of a distro that will run on this old beast?
>
> Bill
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