Exercise in Amusement

[Leon Goldstein]

Bill Campbell wrote:

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>I used a ThinkPad 600 from Aug 1999 until early in 2007 when I got a
>Titanium Powerbook.  I ran all current versions of Caldera OpenLinux on the
>TP600, switching to SuSE 8.x Professional in 2002 or so, updating SuSE Pro
>through 9.2.  Later versions required more RAM (with kde) than was
>available.  SuSE 10.0 ran, but didn't recognize CardBus cards due to
>interrupt problems.
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I haven't used a laptop since the crappy Conner HD on my Zenith 286 went 
south.  I've looked at laptops on and off, and slowly came to the 
conclusion that an IBM ThinkPad would probably be the best bet for me.

I recently acquired a used titanium G4 Powerbook (640 MB @ 400 mHz).  
The previous owner used to own a Mac store until Apple squeezed out the 
independents.  He obligingly loaded WordPerfect 3.5e on it for me.  It 
has OS X 10.4.  I was originally going to install a PPC Linux, but for 
the moment I'm having fun using it as is.  My biggest annoyance is the 
mouse, which lacks a scroll wheel, and the yo-yo shaped wall wart just 
looks weird.  Other than that, the titanium cased Powerbook is what a 
laptop should be. 

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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