Re: [tlug] Favorite Linux laptops these days?

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:23, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:46, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
>>> Okay - I'll just wait for one of those mini-truck junk collectors to come by and give those
>>> old laptops to them then.
>>>
>> In case it is not too much, I am interested in the HDDs, even if they
>> are wiped. Or if they are working, I can wipe them if required.
>>
>> Building a digital forensic lab and teaching people, I always need old
>> mostly working HDDs.
>> Sometimes I find them at Akihabara for 100 yen, but usually they are
>> mostly dead, sold as junk.
>
> Ah - I have some.  Still in the cases that slid in the front of that
> type of Dynabook.  In fact, I have one that is as it came from the
> factory - with the original W3.1 installed and another with the
> original (from another machine) OS/2 installed.  Those two really
> ought to go to a computer museum (is there such a thing?).  (They came
> as extra drives with one of the used Dynabooks - I don't know why they
> were bought in the first place).
>
> As for the others - I have a stack of about twelve laptop hard drives
> that I want to get rid of, but don't remember what's on them (I have
> some idea for some, since I put them in envelopes and wrote on the
> envelope what's inside.  Most are 500MB, but there's also a 340MB one
> and a 1GB, 1.3GB, 4GB, etc.  Most are Toshiba drives, although the's
> also a Fujitsu (manufacturing date 1998-05, unknown size).  I would be
> happy to give them to you, but I need to confirm what's on them first.
>  If you have a way of showing me what's on them, there are a couple
> I'd prefer to keep (or destroy), but most I would be happy to give
> you.  (I'll have a look at that Dynabook on the balcony now (I just
> heard that one has already gone).  If it got slightly wet from
> wind-driven rain, it would still be okay so long as it wasn't powered
> up while wet - although it appeared to be dead before I put it out
> there.)
>

Possible, I can just bring along one of the forensic bridges with all
the adapters (e.g. those pesky 1.8" ZIFs, etc.) and we can do a demo
at the next TLUG (better before/after the talks, rather than in the
bar).

Anybody else interested?
Kalin.