Compaq luggable, what next?

For $25 it's a steal. I liked the Surplusgizmos site, but I couldn't find the other machine. ;-0 As for what to do ... - The XT-IDE card (details can be found over at the Vintage Computer Forum) allows you to put a modern IDE drive in the machine, which probably cuts down on power consumption and improves your reliability. - A good Ethernet card from the era (3COM 3C503, NE1000, or other well known 8 bit cards) will get you 'online' in a limited way. I have written DHCP, Telnet, FTP, and IRC clients that run on machines of that vintage. Also available are netcat, PING, and SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol). Details over at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . I wouldn't invest too much time into a DOS based web browser - if they run they are horribly disappointing. Mike