[OFF-TOPIC] Hardware history

[Karl Auer]

I found my old IBM Thinkpad T42 under a pile of papers yesterday. I
gave it some juice, turned it on - and it still booted. I did have to
set the BIOS time before it would boot off the HDD, but that was all.
First time since 2013. It was purchased in 2005.

It has a 32bit CPU (Pentium-M), 1.2GB of RAM, a 150GB HDD, 802.11b
wifi, a parallel port, an internal modem, an RJ11 port, an Ethernet
port, a VGA port, 2x USBA ports, a DVD/CD drive and separate audio in
and out. And a PS/2 mouse port :-)

The battery still has 11% capacity, which is pretty good for a 20-year-
old battery.

It has Linux Mint on it because Ubuntu didn't support non-PAE
processors after 12.04, and that specific Pentium-M generation didn't
have the right flag even though it did have PAE, so Ubuntu refused to
install. Nowadays there are ways around that, but at the time I just
installed Mint, which had a non-PAE version.

Amazing hardware.

Regards, K.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au, he/him)
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