[OFF-TOPIC] Hardware history

[Bret Busby]

On 25/11/25 18:55, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.
> 

Which version of Linux Mint?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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