toey, resurrected
I have an old Thinkpad whose screen backlight has died, making it pretty useless as a laptop. (I suppose it might work pretty well for a blind person who relied only on speech-synthesis output.)
I woke it up again last night as a headless audio player, sitting near my stereo. I can SSH in and play things through cplay. The sound quality through a NAD amp and Piega speakers is really good; far better than I would have expected. It's not quite as good as a CD, but tolerably close.
It does have an S-Video output, so it might be possible to connect it to the TV, if X is capable of setting up that output.
last says it had been down for just under a year. It gives me a strange happiness to wake it up and let it do something useful again.
posted Wed 1 Sep 2004 in /computers | link
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