In high school I ran Plan 9 on a 600E I found on ebay. The specs were plenty fast enough to run the fourth edition of Plan 9, which hadn't gotten any slower sin

In high school I ran Plan 9 on a 600E I found on ebay. The specs were plenty fast enough to run the fourth edition of Plan 9, which hadn't gotten any slower since the early 90s... and Bell Labs had thoroughly worked out the driver kinks on that machine. I was even able to join wifi networks through the PCMCIA card, which was also supported by Plan 9. Pretty fun to be running a fully graphical Unix successor on native hardware with what probably is a fraction of SLOC compared to most stripped down embedded Linux systems you'll find today. When something went south you could just peak at the kernel source code, and even on a Pentium II it would compile the changed objects in less than a minute! And not even knowing C that well at the time, I made several functional changes to the system. I can't imagine being that cavalier on Linux today over a decade later.... To this day I'm not sure I've used a laptop that has as nice a form factor. Especially wonderful was the tactile feel of the keyboard.