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Project: Old laptop -> universal street atlas

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Sir Fredrick

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I have inherited an old Dell Latitude LM P-100SD. That's a laptop with a CDROM drive, a 100MHz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, and a 800MB hard drive.

It's obviously not good for much, but I thought it would be good to put a street atlas on (I have Delorme Xmap), and then I could keep it in my car and never get lost no matter where I go (I take a lot of road trips).

I put Windows 95 OSR2 on there, and it works. The map software installed but is so slow that it is completely unusable.
I was thinking that if I could pick up some more memory for cheap that would help a lot, but I haven't been able to find anywhere that'll tell me what I need.

Any suggestions? Is this a viable project? What else can you do with a laptop this ancient?
 
Did you check www.crucial.com ?

When you installed W95, did you make the mistake of saying "yes" to Active Desktop?

You might search the OS forum for old threads with links to those people who've made ultra-stripped-down versions of W95 / W98 to find tips on cutting away anything running in memory that you don't need.
 
Crucial.com doesn't have any info on the laptop, it's apparently too old.

I will see what I can find about ultra stripping 95, though currently explorer and taskman are the only things that show up as running processes.
Active Desktop is most definitely not turned on.
 
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