Subject:
|
Re: Linux for the HandyBoard
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics.handyboard
|
Date:
|
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:46:05 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Eric Noyau <noyau@!stopspammers!apple.com>
|
Viewed:
|
922 times
|
| |
|
|
A 486 Board + 486 + 4Meg of ram + 100 Meg drive + keyboard should cost around $20. Or free if you go dig in the right trash ;^).
I don't know where you are but around here (San Francisco Bay area) shops like Weirdstuff (http://www.weirdstuff.com) are selling used Pentium motherboard for $5. Add a Pentium 90 for $8,16Meg of ram for $20 and a 200Meg Disk drive for another $20. Total cost: around $50 bucks, give or take $10.
Price are climbing if you want a monitor/video card for it, monitors aren't cheap, even old ones.
Or just try eBay (http://www.eBay.com). You can get a complete 486 notebook for less than $100 there.
Happy shopping.
-- Eric
At 01:26 AM 9/2/99 , Phil wrote:
> thanks
> I maily wanted it for building a cheap, viable Linux platform without
> having to delve into a somewhat-costly PC/104 board or the like... does
> anyone know of a cheap pc/104 or other small 486-based board available?
> thanks,
> --phil
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Linux for the HandyBoard
|
| Where are you located? I have a bunch of 486 Digitals that I am trying to get rid of. If you are in the boston area you could come by and get a 486 and a 14" monitor for 40 bucks. Or you could go to the MIT flea market and get about the same thing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Linux for the HandyBoard
|
| thanks I maily wanted it for building a cheap, viable Linux platform without having to delve into a somewhat-costly PC/104 board or the like... does anyone know of a cheap pc/104 or other small 486-based board available? thanks, --phil -----Original (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
|
4 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
