For the record, you're not going to get much battery life out of any laptop from this era. Regarding local retailers, que computers is the only place I know of (although I'm sure there are more out there). http://www.quecomputers.com Best of luck, John Chris Frederick wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm looking for a cheap and old laptop. Less than $100. Somewhere in >the 90Mhz to 200Mhz, P.Pro/PII range. Hopefully a Thinkpad, but I'd >settle for other brands. > >I'm hoping to find one to load Gentoo on it, and run it as a VNC thin >client. I'm only going to load tightvnc, xorg, and esd. > >I've found a few on Ebay, but I haven't had much luck through auction >sites, and since I'm taking someone's word for the condition, I'd rather >not go that route. I've also found a few online liquidators that have >some, but most want to sell in bulk, and it's rare to find one thats >been thoroughly tested. > >There's got to be more of these out there. Where do they all go? Does >anyone know of a local retailer or liquidator that sells to the public, >where you can inspect the machine before you buy it? These things are >too slow to run WinXP/2K, so their nothing but a paperweight to most of >the general public. I would think that they would be going for next to >nothing. > >Any advice on where I should be looking for something like this? > >Thanks all, >Chris > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >