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Yesterday I bought a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX for $2. It works and has a Intel 486 and 8 MB RAM. It has no hard drive or caddy, but I am ordering one. I just wanted to know what it could be used for. Thanks in advance! |
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Yeah, I agree make it run retro games. If games isn't your fancy, make it a server. |
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my advice is that you should set up a retro system to play retro games. I can't see you doing anything more productive than that.(that is if you consider gaming productive) |
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If you can still find a 2.5IDE drive for it like a 20 or 40 gigs the most for that kind of laptop. You can play older games like Police quest. if you can find some abandonwre games on the net that would run on it. Maybe if you were really lucky to find a version of linux from slackware that would run on a dos based partition for that it might work. |
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I ran Calmira over 3.1 a few years ago on a 386@25mhz w/4mb RAM. Looked like Win 95 & could actually access the 'net! Check out the screenshots- it really looked great. I saw a post of someone running Linux RH5 on one of these...not sure the best use, other than maybe a kitchen cookbook w/access to online recipes? |
can you measure how much power it uses. There are some uses for it but you have to also consider the soft of running the machine compared to just running dos box
or buying a raspberry pi system and finding a way to get it to run retro games