Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:22 +0100 From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for laptops Message-ID: <38CF43C8.F84D89A8@webweaving.org> References: <200003150751.AAA85374@harmony.village.org>
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Would you have use for an old IBM 701CS butterfly thinkpad ? Unfortunately it is rather friendly to PCI, even with early 2.1/PAO all and everthing has always worked. Dw Warner Losh wrote: > > I hate to post such a brazenly commercial "wanted to buy" to -mobile, > but I figured I'd get the best deals possible from this forum. > > I'm looking to acquire a couple of laptops for testing. It has become > clear to me that my VAIO is just too friendly to the current code and > I need some active hostility that only a Dell Lattitude or Compaq > Presario can offer :-). To that end, I'm looking to purchase/trade > second hand laptops for a reasonable amount. I don't have much money > to spend on this project, so last year's models are what I had in > mind. Or even the year before's. > > I may consider broken machines that work well enough for my testing > purposes. Bad lcd, but working vga port, for example. They do need > to be able to boot FreeBSD and have the ability to insert/remove > pccard/cardbus cards, apm suspend functioning and ideally would > operate on battery power. That last one isn't absolutely required. > It would also be nice if they had enough disk for a make installworld > to fit with about 20MB + 4x RAM to spare (for crash dumps, swap and > the like). I think that puts the lower limit at about 600MB. > > If you have an old laptop gathering dust that you'd like to contribute > to the cause, or that you'd make a good deal for me, please contact me > off the list. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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