Laptop to give away

[Jack Mendez]

i am interested, i can probably repare it.
At 12:41 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote:
>Hello list.
>
>I have a KDS 6300 laptop to give away.  It has a major flaw in that the 
>CD-rom drive is dead and I have no idea if it can be fix/replaced.  If 
>interested, reply off-list.  Buyer pays shipping UPS ground.
>
>The machine has:
>
>* 700 MHz processor.
>
>* 184 MB of Ram.
>
>*  10 GB hard drive.
>
>* Internal floppy drive.
>
>* CD-rom drive (which does not work).
>
>*  One RS-232 serial port.
>
>*  One Parallel port.
>
>*  One monitor port.
>
>*  2 USB 1.1 ports.
>
>*  1 type II PCMCIA slot.
>
>*  Ethernet port.
>
>*  Modem port.
>
>*  Infrared port (have no idea if it works).
>
>*  External keyboard port.
>
>*  Mouse in front of keyboard (uses com2 port).
>
>*  Headphone and microphone jacks.
>
>*  Left and right stereo speakers above the keyboard.
>
>*  Installed battery (don't know how good it is).
>
>*  Charger.
>
>*  No original Docs or software.
>
>
>The machine has Slackware 10.0 installed (2.4.26 kernel) and is set up for 
>brltty on com1 to a PowerBraille display.  However, I don't see any 
>problem setting it up for Speakup to a synthesizer through the serial 
>port.  The kernel source-tree is included.  Except for KDE, the complete 
>distribution is there.
>
>The system can boot through lilo (remove the floppy disk) or from a floppy 
>disk.
>
>The Alsa drivers are installed as well as realplayer and trplplayer.  In 
>addition, OSS mixers are also installed.
>
>The Ethernet port will work and is configured for dhcp so connecting it to 
>a router is convenient.  The USB ports also work.  The internal modem is 
>not supported in Linux but some searching might uncover a driver.  It 
>should be possible to use and external CD-rom drive/burner through a USB port.
>
>Performance isn't lightning-fast but not all that bad either and it would 
>probably make a good general-purpose Linux machine (except for the CD-rom 
>drive).  The machine runs a tad warm and you will notice the fan ramping 
>up and down.  There is a 65 MB swap partition.
>
>I'm giving this machine away except that the buyer pays shipping (UPS 
>ground to make tracking possible).  If interested, reply off-list.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
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