On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 01:15:32PM EST, Luke Davis wrote: > Hello, Folks. > > My Wonderful little IBM Thinkpad 600 has finally bitten more dust than > not, and with a degrading hard drive, a dead motherboard battery, and a > possibly bad parallel port, I think I must sadly move on to something new. > > I really liked the physical design of the TP 600 (the best laptop design I > have run into recently). > > I need to get a new unit, upon which I can install Linux rather painlesly. I would recommend a ThinkPad, as you can get pretty much all new ThinkPads to run Linux, with a bit of tweaking. I am currently using an R50, and the only thing I haven't got working is the modem, but that is because I don't need it. > I'll need something with one PCMCIA slot and an ethernet port, or two > PCMCIA slots, an RS232 serial port, and a parallel port, for all that > legasy gear I still must use. This might be a big problem, as laptops these days don't ship with serial ports, as far as I know anyway. hth Luke
