Okay. I got the laptop tonight. It's an IBM Thinkpad 701C with a 80486 75mhz proc and 20mb ram. It's a pretty decent laptop. I got it with a docking station (mouse, kb, video, parallel, serial...) and an external floppy drive. There's no battery yet but I'm not exactly wanting to walk around with it. It's pretty cool...it has a butterfly keyboard.
Right now, I'm working on getting the hard drive backed up which seems to be a bit of a problem. I have no way of transfering files other than via floppy disk. 211mb of data by way of floptical is not fun. I'm scouring friends' computer parts in hopes of finding a parallel zip drive. I JUST WANT WIN95 GONE(&#$
After that, I should be able to install Slack 7.0. I read it doesn't play well with new kernels (and what would the advantage be of installing the newest stuff? Yeah...USB support is really an issue) Once I get linux installed, I'll be installing database software, Apache, and Netscape. It's gonna be sweet. Gotta do a bit of programming for it, though. I'll also have to learn someone how to maintain it
(AFAIK..I'm the only linux user on my team...but I'm in the process of converting)
I should be getting a memory upgrade soon. 64mb ram *drool*