@debacle @thomasfuchs: This is my 12.1" (4:3, 1024×768) #Thinkpad 760XD with a Pentium 1 with 166 MHz and 48 MB of RAM. It's famous for its keyboard automatically raising on the back side for a comfortable typing angle when opening the lid: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:760XD
(I also have a Thinkpad 760ED which looks the same, but even has less RAM, CPU frequency, disk and screen resolution: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:760ED)
@fluidlogic @debacle @thomasfuchs: IIRC that's a tiny WiFi #USB stick in a #PCMCIA to USB adapter. Worked better than the Orinoco I had in there before. The label of the WiFi USB stick says "Edimax".
And yes, that thing is too old to have any USB port. It also can't boot from CD-ROM, just from disk or 3.5" floppy drive. To install Debian 8 on it, I had to install the last Debian which came with the old "boot floppies" installer, Debian 3.0 Woody or so. Then ~5× dist-upgrading. 😇 #retrocomputing
@xtaran @debacle @thomasfuchs outstanding, thank you! I'm having a painful time with a roughly contemporary 10/100 Ethernet PCMCIA adapter and my still-stunning #IBM #Thinkpad 760CD: https://oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/112062244431799313
I hadn't expected PCMCIA USB adapters to enable such versatility.
Attached: 3 images Getting the #Windows98 driver for the FEther PCC-TXF #PCMCIA network card installed on my 1996 #Thinkpad760CD and then configuring TCP/IP networking reminded me what an appalling, barely-working mess Windows was at the time when this hardware was new. The OS hangs if the card is inserted before the driver is installed. Through repeated experimentation, I found a system state during probing for #PlugNPlay hardware when the OS would get most of the way through driver installation. After several attempts and many reboots, I was in a position to attempt to configure TCP/IP. Turns out for DHCP and DNS to work, you need to give the machine a name and manually configure the DNS server and default route IP addresses. What I found astonishing was the lack of feedback in any of this; no log files to inspect, no graphical tooling to renew an IP address. Just lots of poking in the dark and endless reboots. #RetroComputing #Windows98 #InternetExplorer5 #IBM #Thinkpad #Thinkpad760CD #PCMCIA
Unfortunately Debian kicked out Pentium 1 (i586) CPU support from its 32-bit PC port (named i386 for historic circumstances) for its next stable release Debian 9 Stretch. (Then again they complain ...
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