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Old Jun 24, 2002 | 02:22 PM
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Buying Laptop-min Req??

Im searching e-bay for a cheaper laptop now,can someone tell me minimum requirments needed to run craigs software
or maybe another?
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Old Jun 24, 2002 | 02:49 PM
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I ran craigs software on my IBM PS/2 486 laptop with 4 megs of memory and PC-DOS 6.1.
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Old Jun 24, 2002 | 05:01 PM
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Just about any 486 will do, I have a Dell Lattitude P90 i picked up for $150. New battery,A/C supply and 16M (32 total) RAM have $225 or so. cheers, Bob
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Old Jun 25, 2002 | 01:54 AM
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Picked up a Toshiba Tecra P-133, 32 meg ram on E bay for $74, it is in excellent shape and will more than handle all of the diagnostic software out there. The requirements for this stuff is super low, gotta figure out how to get it to run on my C-128 now
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Old Jun 25, 2002 | 05:19 AM
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Yess, thank you .
I had jumped the gun and bought this 486 w/ 8 megs ram and was scared it would not run it.
Anyone see a prob. w/ this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...DME:B:EOA:US:2

Thanks for all the help.
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