i've got like 5 ibm thinkpad, but no cdrom's so if you can hook up an external cdrom you can have one i dont' know all the specs for these ancient things i just now that they are practically worthless to me i think hdd is less than a gig and ram is like 4 mb proc is unkown to me mike FoulDragon@aol.com wrote: I might suggest you could go a hell of a lot lower, if you can find a DOS-based image viewer. You might try the swap meets... I've seen (and bought) 486-class lappies whose primary problems were bad screen hinges (not really relevant if you're rebuilding into a frame) and-or bad batteries for like 10 USD or less. Nothing in your task couldn't be done with a 486-40 (common lappie speed), with 8Mb of memory and a 200Mb hard disc (or why not a CF card in an adaptor?) "There are two main products that come out of Berkely: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson "Linux for Servers. Macintosh for graphics. Palm for portability. and Windoze for Solitaire My Site [ http://www.solodiver.net ] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.