[Noisebridge-discuss] Compaq Concerto - 486/25 Tablet PC's - Runs Windows 3.11 for Pen computing, Windows 95, and SuSE Linux 6.3

Joe Pfeiffer joseph at pfeifferfamily.net
Mon Sep 27 00:28:36 UTC 2010


Corey McGuire writes:
>Hey folks,
>
>I have about 25 of these awesome little systems.  They are Active Pen Tablet
>Laptops from 1992, they are NOT Y2K compliant, and they are NOT under
>warranty, but they are AWESOME and totally serviceable machines.  There's even
>a linux 2.6 kernel driver for the pen!  Or one for Linux 2.0.

Speaking as the author of the 2.0 pen driver, these were very cool
little machines in their day (I still have mine, though it was
decommissioned a decade ago) and deserve a place of honor in anyone's
"cool old junk" display.



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