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The reason you are having trouble finding a machine in the class you are searching in is that they suck. The main area of advance in laptops is in battery technology, power management and display. None of the older machines have displays adequate for GUI interfaces.

If you want a text based interface, you might get by with PC-DOS, the IBM version of MS-DOS.

There is a Tandy laptop with an LCD display that field researchers love because it survives physical abuse. It still has followers, even though the technology is old.

[Clinging Bitterly]

...Tandy 102 laptop...

I remember those. Very popular with Ham Radio operators for packet terminals. I used (and still use) a more traditional tandy XT style laptop, the 1400FD. A NEC V-20 CPU running at a blistering 10 Mhz, a good sized flip up backlit LCD screen, regular sized keyboard keys, plus a pair of 3.5" floppy drives and MS-DOS 3.32 tricked out with a handy 128K Ramdisk running in upper memory(because two floppies never seem to be quite enough), AND a built in 1200 Baud modem! You could also get 'em with a 40 Meg hard drive, and if CC could find one of those, it'd probably be darn near free and it'd run WP 5.1 just fine.

Dave in Eugene