Death of an old machine

[border-rider]

Well, its time has come. 

My oldest Dell Latitude laptop is 8 years old.  I just broke its screen for the second time, the battery is dead, the CD drive falls out when you move it cos the case is cracked - none of that really mattered: it had Xubuntu on it and it was the ifrst machine I got Ubuntu & wireless to work on, using a Belkin PCMCIA card.  I used it for internet radio in the garage so the screen damage didn't matter.  But the power supply just went. I guess that's it

[Hot Flatus]

My deepest condolences. 

Hugs?

[mercury]

Fleabay!
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Maplin!

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[Charlotte]

Oh dear.

Can we send flowers?

[border-rider]

You may mock but I've nursed that machine from sickly Windows ill-health to robust Ubuntu strength.  It's like getting rid of an old bike.

[Charlotte]

A moment of silence, then?

[Gattopardo]

You may mock but I've nursed that machine from sickly Windows ill-health to robust Ubuntu strength.  It's like getting rid of an old bike.

Some times things have just reached there time.

Praise it for the good times.

[alexb]

Will that wireless card be enough to give my 13 year old Win95 laptop access to t'internet?

[border-rider]

spect so.  want it ?

[Jules]

Will that wireless card be enough to give my 13 year old Win95 laptop access to t'internet?

I've got one of those. Mine's a Compaq LTE-5400 with a scorching Pentium 150 mHz processor, 32mB of memory and a 6Gb hard drive ( and cost about £1800 new.)

It now dual boots Win-95 and RedHat 6 and starts Windows faster than any of my other computers