Daily Archives: October 29, 2003

Free, or at least cheap

A friend of mine needs to borrow a laptop for National Novel Writing Month, so I’ve been tracking stuff down to put on the old PowerBook 5300 that I got from Wegener Media… It’s very much a bare bones machine. 1 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM and a little PowerPC 603e processor chugging away at 100 mhz… Not exactly the world’s speediest machine anymore, but it’ll work for word processing, and it’s been tricked out with external monitor support and ethernet…
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