Well, I guess I was wondering what variety of software was available
for Mac OS 7–9. Word processing probably isn't running with the big
dogs on one of these, but I think the lack of distractions might
actually be beneficial… (for example, not being able to log into
Google Groups or Gmail or Facebook every few minutes). ;)

On Feb 27, 6:54 pm, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/27/2010 7:37 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
> > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Austin Leeds<[email protected]>  wrote:
> > <clip>
>
> >> Anybody know what's the coolest stuff these things can do?
>
> > Run Linux? ;)
>
> > Well the answer for the Duo 230 is not much. It's slow, has a monochrome, 
> > 640x480 screen, a small hard drive and little RAM. 500 meg was the largest 
> > 2.5" SCSI hard drive, huge for a Mac of that vintage, more likely the Duo 
> > has somewhere around 40 meg. There's been some bigger SCSI drives for 
> > PowerBooks, but they're IDE drives with a very small SCSI to IDE bridge 
> > attached, they don't fit all PowerBooks due to the extra length.
>
> Hmm, I have a Powerbook Duo 280c with a 1 gig 2.5" SCSI drive. I'll see
> if I can dig it out of my stuff and get more info on it.
>
> Scott

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