Laptop to give away

[Jack Mendez]

oops heh sorry
At 01:55 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote:
>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.
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>>*  One monitor port.
>>
>>*  2 USB 1.1 ports.
>>
>>*  1 type II PCMCIA slot.
>>
>>*  Ethernet port.
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>>*  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).
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>>*  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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