Anachronistic computing

Yay! The laptop I recently bought for a ridiculously low price is eventually working like I want.

First its characteristics:

It is a IBM Thinkpad X32. A good news is it sports one of the best keyboards one can find on a laptop (and I was lucky enough to find the GB layout). I found it at an electronic fair I recently visited, and grabbed it without much thinking from the pile (literally) where it layed together with some of its twins.

I think it's remarkable that such an old piece of hardware can be a perfectly usable machine (at least for the way I'm used to work). All it takes is some attention to the software one chooses to install:

• Linux, obvious choice to revive old hardware (in this case, I had to recur to a non-PAE kernel due to the particular CPU architecture)
• i3, a lightweight tiling window manager
• Emacs 24.3, where I'm going to spend much of my time (w3m is a decent surrogate of a proper graphical browser for reading documentation)
• I'm even running Hakyll locally to prepare this post