Re: (Sony) Notes [was: Re: tlug: graphic chipset]

[Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com>]

Craig Oda wrote,

> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:
> 
> > Sony VAIO PCG-505, or so, and in the Japanese advertisment
> > brochures it is also called $B%P%$%*%N!<%H(B (or something like
> 
> If it's the one I'm thinking of, it had an internal 33.6Kbps
> modem.  So, I guess you would need the IRQs for the ethernet.
> It had some type of special adaptor for the CD-ROM.  Though,
> I was thinking of doing the Debian install with floppies
> and ethernet.  Was the price around 160,000 yen with 32 megs
> of RAM and 133mhz processor?  I saw this in Bic Camera
> and was really interested in it.

Apart from the price it is definitely the same machine, but
I saw it for about 237,000 yen in Softmap (and a little more
in Tsukuba's Ishimaru).  Are you sure about the price?

One person I was talking to said that the machine uses a lot
of interrupts internally for I don't know which purposes,
and therefore, they had problems with some cards (but they
didn't run Linux).  But the machine has only one PCMCIA slot
anyway.

Cheers,

Manuel
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