[ale] Wall wort for IBM 600x?

[James Taylor]

What is the $100 weather station you got?
I'm looking for one for a kid's b'day present.
-jt

James Taylor
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>>> Greg Freemyer  03/08/10 1:41 PM >>>
I took an old laptop and hooked it up to a $100 weatherstation.  My
Dad now has a website where he can checkout the weather at his
vacation house.

He's into the weather so he loves it.  If it goes down I always get a call.

I ssh into it for admin purposes.

Greg

On 3/8/10, Charles Shapiro  wrote:
> Hah! Boots and Runs fine, memtestx86 reports clean. Boots Lose 2000 to
> a passwordless admin user. The CMOS battery appears either shot or not
> charged though, since I have to set the clock before it'll start.
>
> I found an update for the BIOS but alas the updater seems to require a
> functional main battery. acpi reports that the battery is not charging
> at all. A new one is, like, $35 on ebay. Looks like this machine'll
> run xubuntu just fine though -- minimum requirements are 192 mb and 2
> gb of disk space, this thing has 300+ mb of memory and a 20g hard
> drive installed.
>
> It seems to have a pcmcia slot, but the linux rescue CD isn't finding
> drivers for my Lenovo cardbus 11a/b/g adapter.  It's got a built-in
> modem but that appears to be about it.  Onboard sound seems to work
> ok.  It's even got a functional USB port or two.
>
> Another fun toy. Wonder what I can do with it.  Maybe it's the world's
> biggest, ugliest mp3 player.
>
> -- CHS
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Charles Shapiro
>  wrote:
>> Oops, wait, I have an R51 and it looks like the power supply is
>> compatible.  Now I know that the 600x boots ok to an old Windows 2000
>> installation.  I'm running memtest86 on it even as I speak.
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Charles Shapiro
>>  wrote:
>>> Hey, anyone have a power supply for an IBM Thinkpad 600x laptop (circa
>>> 2000 I think)?  I scored one recently without power supply. The
>>> supplies are available on EBay for around $10, but I wanted to verify
>>> that the box works before shelling out the dough. This is a P3 with
>>> (allegedly) 327 mb of RAM. I was gonna put Puppy Linux on it if it
>>> runs. The machine claims to want 16 V at 3 A through a round
>>> negative-outsied plug, FWIW. The battery, of course, is shot.
>>>
>>> -- CHS
>>>
>>
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