Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:10:48 -0400 From: Andy Harrison <aharrison@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HPA LCD for X? Message-ID: <a22ff2940406272110113f9e0f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040626234224.GA88549@tao.thought.org> References: <20040626234224.GA88549@tao.thought.org>
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:42:24 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > Fellow BSDers, > > A friend here in Seattle offered to sell his IBM laptop > for $100. It needs a new CDROM drive and I don't think it > has a NIC. I've been poking around the web and found that > ebay has several Thinkpad 1400s. > > i'M planning on using the 'festival' text-to-speech > synthesizer. Having X would be a plus, not a necessity. > One of the Thinkpad-1400s says its screen is "HPA LCD". > > Two questions: does X11 4.x work with this type of display? > Also: are there any other (low-cost/used) laptops worth > considering? I do like that stick mouse gadget. > > feedback? > > thanks, > > gary > > PS: This latop will have limited used, not heavy, daily > pounding. > > I had a Thinkpad 600e (366mhz) for quite a while. Loaded up with 296MB of RAM it was actually quite functional. Although it had a crappy sound card, it worked without any headaches. I did an ftp install, too, so you wouldn't even need the cd to at least get up and running, as long as it has the floppy. -- Andy Harrison
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