Life is full of surprises...
2005-07-17 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearWent out for a walk this morning; came home shortly before the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaoswolf and flowercat left for their FurCon meeting. Went to Togo's with the Y.D. for lunch, then went out to hit a couple of my favorite surplus joints. A place just down the street from Halted (one of my favorites) was luring people in with a tabletop display of laptops for $40.
Yeah, they were laptops -- genuine IBM ThinkPads, in fact. No disk, no battery, no AC adapter -- but one had to admit that they were laptops. Inside, it was a different story, though -- they had a sizeable pile of working ThinkPads in the 700-900 MHz range. I heard a price that sounded like $250. Hmm.
By the time I got home, the Cat and Chaos were home, too, and the Cat was in the mood for a drive. I told her about the laptops, and she agreed that the price was somewhere around the high end of the impulse-buy range, provided I got her a Windows XP soon to upgrade her computer skills on. OK... As it turned out, the 750 MHz T21 they had up and running was $300. OK.
It has a (presumably bootleg) "demo" install of Win98SE on it. I have a spare Win98 license I'm not using, so I'll let it slide. GNU parted on the just-released DeMuDi Live CD resized the DOS partition, after which DeMuDi 1.2.1 installed just fine except for some problem with the built-in network card thatI haven't diagnosed yet a page I found via Google (of course) says requires acpi=off on the boot line. Success.
chaoswolf and flowercat left for their FurCon meeting. Went to Togo's with the Y.D. for lunch, then went out to hit a couple of my favorite surplus joints. A place just down the street from Halted (one of my favorites) was luring people in with a tabletop display of laptops for $40.Yeah, they were laptops -- genuine IBM ThinkPads, in fact. No disk, no battery, no AC adapter -- but one had to admit that they were laptops. Inside, it was a different story, though -- they had a sizeable pile of working ThinkPads in the 700-900 MHz range. I heard a price that sounded like $250. Hmm.
By the time I got home, the Cat and Chaos were home, too, and the Cat was in the mood for a drive. I told her about the laptops, and she agreed that the price was somewhere around the high end of the impulse-buy range, provided I got her a Windows XP soon to upgrade her computer skills on. OK... As it turned out, the 750 MHz T21 they had up and running was $300. OK.
It has a (presumably bootleg) "demo" install of Win98SE on it. I have a spare Win98 license I'm not using, so I'll let it slide. GNU parted on the just-released DeMuDi Live CD resized the DOS partition, after which DeMuDi 1.2.1 installed just fine except for some problem with the built-in network card that
