[Novalug] looking for Pentium 3 level laptop for Ubuntu Cheap

[Bonnie Dalzell]

I have a project that needs a working pentium 3 level laptop which will be 
running Ubuntu. The applications are open office, nedit, gedit,xdosemu and 
firefox.

I need to get a cheap machine. I have a 40 gig laptop harddrive 
available and of course I do not want to pay for a machine with windoze 
installed and have to pay for windoze.

I think Ubuntu needs 1/2 a gig of memory to run well.

Anyone have a machine to sell inexpensiely or know of a good source?

Suprisingly when I googled "used pentium 3 laptops" I found almost 
nothing.

Similarly the Baltimore Craig's list was not very useful.

I purchased one such machine (a Sony Vio P3) when I was out in California 
last month for $134 (no memory or harddrive) but the store did not have 
two at the time. I have called them back.

Thanks for any suggestions. I can drive down to VA to pick up a machine if 
someone has one to sell.

One neat thing about Linux - when I got the Vio we popped the harddrive 
from my deceased cheap Gateway into it and the thing actually booted into 
linux. However the GUI could not come up so I did have to reinstall 
Ubuntu from a CD.

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