Possibly OT: FW: Vintage Laptops Wanted

Bingo. (I would have said this myself, except I figured nobody _here_, of all places, needed to hear it....) My laptop collection consists of about four HP Omnibooks with various degrees of damage, from none to relatively bad (some of them were shipped with insufficient packing - I keep them around for parts). About the only thing it doesn't do that I might want is X, and that's because I value my sanity too much to try to understand XFree86 rather than because there's anything inherently impossible about it. The Omnibooks I mention above were obtained for free. I spent the last half of 2002 working for Universitetet i Troms? (the University of Troms?, in northern Norway). They had a pile of something like 40 of those Omnibooks that the University had decided were old enough to be considered worthless. Fortunately, the staff did not entirely agree, and thus kept them in a corner of an office rather than tipping them into the skip; their attitude was basically "here, take two, they're small". I did have to put a bigger disk in it - the disk was only about half a gig, which was too small for what I wanted - but that was all it needed. No...they just know their "market". Most people - and approximately all people who go to charitable organizations for computers - are not interested in computers for their own sake, but rather as tools to generate Word documents for granting agencies and the like, and as such, machines not capable of running the latest bloatware _are_ basically worthless to them. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B