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- From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux on a $999 laptop works
- Message-ID: <3570@eastman.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 12:09:06 GMT
- References: <l9rnafINNt14@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
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- 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
- __________
- Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
- talley@acadia.kodak.com
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