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I did something similar with a Compaq Contura 4/25c about 15-20 years ago. It had 8 Mb RAM so I was able to install Slackware 3.9 (IIRC) via floppies with a sta

I did something similar with a Compaq Contura 4/25c about 15-20 years ago. It had 8 Mb RAM so I was able to install Slackware 3.9 (IIRC) via floppies with a standalone X session running Netscape. Later I put Win 95c on it (again, via floppies) which ran fairly well.

axiolite 5y ago
I still have my Contura in a box in a closet. Along with a PCMCIA network card, the docking station and the 20MB RAM upgrade. Used it up until ~2010 when I got a similarly tiny and inexpensive EeePC. Was a nice small, cheap system that worked well enough as a dumb serial/telnet/ssh terminal for network management tasks. It was only a little bit slow to start an SSH session. Even started up fast with Linux or FreeBSD. OpenBSD was rather slow to boot. I didn't have much reason to bother with X11. Text utilities always got the job done, including for web browsing needs thanks to links.