[Novalug] Older PCs get no respect!

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Ed T. Toton III wrote:

> Thus spake Ken Kauffman:
>
>> Have we beaten this topic to death yet?
>
>
> Here's one more, found on slashdot this morning:
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> http://news.com.com/Fun+and+profit+with+obsolete+computers/2100-1041_3-6175961.html?tag=nefd.top
>
> Older computers can be an investment! :)

 	Plaintive plea : this thread grew out of my innocent 
question as to what people would buy (new!) for a few hundred 
bucks, if wanting a laptop to run linux, and specifically roadnav 
(which I may have failed to mention).

 	The idea is to put the laptop on the lap of a passenger, 
connected to a GPS on the dash and the cigarette lighter for 
power, and have the passenger able to follow along in real time, 
on a decent-size display, without having to know straight up 
about the machinery.

 	Roadnav looks (on a PC running straight FC6) like it can 
do that fine, at last, at last; but when I tried to put it onto a 
G3 iBook running FC6.ppc, I bollixed the whole machine so badly 
that I had to pay a shop to reinstall an OS on it.

 	We got lots of advice -- till I mentioned that I don't do 
ebay. Then the whole original thread dried up ...

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Beartooth Clodstomper
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