From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 13:05:22 EDT
Darren, et al.,
large HDD's are cheap..
used 3 or 4 gig drives should be readily available..
installing in the existing HDD shell will take sume trace cutting on the little
cable/plug assembly, but its not all that complex..
Darren Kennedy wrote:
> >From personal experience a minimum win95 installation is in the order of
> 270Mb. This was for win95 osr2, using fat32 FS. As for the win95 distribution
> ie cab files etc, these are about 70Mb.
>
> I would recommend either an earlier IE version or netscape 4.x as IE5 will
> steal lots of your precious disk space. Not sure about outlook etc.
>
> You will also need [finger in air] ~80Mb swap space.
>
> I reckon you can do it. I'd certainly give it a go.
>
> No idea on prices although I paid £180 for my 760CD from a work
> colleague. He was given it from his last employer and it had hardly
> been used. Even the mouse nipple looked new and clean.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Thomas [SMTP:jt_at_epix.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: 755CE - win95 in 540meg ??
>
> I have a 755CE in excellent shape - 40 meg; 540 meg; external backpack PP
> CD available. I have a friend who is interested if he can reasonably run
> W95 on this machine - mail, netscape (and IE) and not a lot else and don't
> currently have any info on how much space a w95 installation requires.
> His Toshiba (which is in the process of being preempted by his wife) is
> currently using about 1 gig of a 2 gig drive; looks like getting rid of
> the cab files alone would clear up a goodly amount of space, and a minimal
> install should get rid of some fluff, but I have no idea what is required
> for a reasonable setup.
>
> Another question - what's a fair price for this machine?
>
> Thanks.
>
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