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

Corey McGuire coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Sun Feb 20 07:22:22 UTC 2011


This will not be a game machine.  There is no sound option, the CPU has no
FPU, and the screen has no VESA acceleration.

You are free to them as soon as I make the partition sane.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still want one of these, I have a thing for old computers specifically
> 486's and non x86 machines.  I actually want one as a Dos gaming machine, if
> they have a floppy drive.  That is if you would not mind me taking just one
> for now.
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:
>
>> They have a funky bios that is installed on the first partition of the
>> hard drive, and I need to make sure that each still have this partition
>> functional or they will be useless.  It's a trivial, though tedious,
>> process.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:
>>
>>> They are there, now, but I need to nuke the bioses and hard drives
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:48 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > These laptops are still darkening my door.  Who wants them?
>>>>
>>>> do they have modems?
>>>> have you got something like DSLinux working on these?
>>>>
>>>> can you bring a 4 of these in for testing to see if we can get them
>>>> going with dsl and that pen driver... maybe more later?
>>>>
>>>> -rma
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Ronald Cotoni
> Systems Engineer
>
>
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