From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: Linux on a $999 laptop works Date: 28 Aug 1992 12:09:06 GMT
In article <l9rnafINNt14@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.com (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
>For your information. I took the Linux boot disk and root disk, I
>think they were .97, and booted it up on an ACER laptop over at Frys
>Electronics. The laptop is $999, 1MB (can go to 5MB) and a 40MB disk
>(can't expand) and a VGA screen. It looked OK. It has to be the
>cheapest laptop Linux system around. 6 pounds or so.
>---
>Larry McVoy (415) 336-7627 lm@sun.com
For what it's worth, there's a place called Computer City around here (and
elsewhere, I expect) that sells Victor laptops for $999. Essentially the
same as the one described above, except it has a 60MB hard disk.
--Brian
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Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com