Ancient lappy for scouting

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So I had this neat idea and wasn't totally sure where to post it...but I guess it falls under this category. I believe my team has gained a few old laptops (486, 16mb ram). We have been needing a simpler way to do scouting and these laptops came to mind. My idea was to put a webserver on it, a small window manager (for linux...of course), along with a mySQL database. The only problem is that I'm not sure if that old machine can handle all that. I've never run any sort of database software nor ever even thought about programming for one. Anyone know what kind of machine I would want to do that?

(All you people with your fancy new Vaio laptops just for display purposes...sheesh...Until this year, our robot programming has been done on a computer using a proc made my IBM and it's oler than me))

My basic plan was to create a web interface like a search engine then be able to type in or select what I want to limit. IE: check a box that says Tether and box that says 2 goals then search and print all the results. Much easier than flipping through every page in a notebook and trying to find pictures on 40 different digital cameras.