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kknudson · #31 03-06-2009, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Wow! This is turning into geekspeak, complete with acrynons.

I investigated the modem connection that is in the computer. I was able to eject the card on which the telephone connection resdies. Maybe this is my PCMCIA slot. In fact, there are 2 slots, one stacked on top of the other with eject buttons on the right. The modem card says " 10/100LANCardbus PC Card w/ XJACK Connector" It also has a logo that says "PC Card".
Is this the PCMCIA slot?
It appears to be an IBM ThinkPad 600X

Please try to keep the discussion in English--for the non-geek here--me.
Thanks

That isn't a modem, it's a NIC oops Network card so you could connected that right to your router or home LAN.
Carefull again, sometimes Cardbus isn't quite PCMCIA, particularly on those older IBMs. Another of IBMs 'proprietary' interfaces that never caught on.

Ah reread the original post, you are refering to this as a Modem, Modems are used to connect via the telephone. Modulator Demodulator aka Modem.

NIC or Network interface Card is used to connect to some form of hardwired network, wether it be DSL, cable or ???

pawoSD · #32 03-06-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

The simple reason is that there are still a lot of useful PII, PIII and even P4 desktop and laptop PC's whose motherboards and chipsets cannot support enough ram to run XP, let alone Vista or Win7. Win2K provides NTFS support with minimal hardware requirements. As I said earlier, it allowed a TP600 with just 288mb of ram to be an effective wireless web pc.

The TP600X will take a PCMCIA wifi card just fine. Get an 802.11G card for cheap since it's unlikely that there'll be a "N" wifi spot out in the woods.

Not really....XP runs fine on practically anything. I have a 1998 AMD K6-2 300Mhz CPU + 160 megs of SDRAM + ancient socket 7 motherboard running XP, and its plenty stable....its been up for months at a time. Its slow to "use" it....but its only 300mhz.....I could open firefox and post to the forum if I wanted with no problem. It just sits there as a fax-receiving system.

My garage PC is a 933Mhz PIII with 256 ram....and it runs XP plenty fast. I can browse the forum, look at PDF's/the FSM/and run web radio in iTunes all at the same time and it doesn't have a single issue.

MTI · #33 03-06-2009, 11:05 PM

I'm going to venture a guess that the OP's TP doesn't have the hard drive space to accomdate XP SP3. It's likely to have something along the lines of 10-20GB at best