Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2162 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I've got 6 of them, starting with the Butterfly, aka CS701 -- which 
> is from 1996 -- and still runs(!) -- Linux of course, although an 
> older Slackware distribution, current SUSE is much too large for 
> it. Boys, the pains and struggles to get Linux running on a laptop 
> in 1997, you won't even know about it. We're in heaven right now...

I once installed linux onto a 5M 386sx-16 GRiD that some nearby government 
office threw out a pair of.
I was only able to get 5M was by robbing 2M from one to add to the other.
They had 640x480 mono lcd screens and HD was something like 20 or 40M with DOS 
and even windows 3.1 beleive it or not.

I used a tomsrtbt floppy to install and basically just left it at that, a 
tomsrtbt hd install heh!
I was able to set up dual boot without destroying the original dos/win via 
scandisk, defrag, fips, fdisk, mkfs, lilo.
Made myself a plip cable and got networking via plip!

That was one solid machine. I heard stories about them being dropped and 
bouncing down cement fire escape stairwells while open and running and not 
suffering any harm, and I can beleive it. The screen was rigid alloy and braced 
in the middle by the odd way it opened.

I wish I hadn't decided to install a 486sx upgrade chip. It never ran reliably 
after that for more than a few minutes after startup. Probably heat. There was 
no room to put any kind of heat sink on the cpu.

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