A lot of people swear by burning CDs at low speeds, but I always burn
at higher speeds with no problem. This is under Linux though, not
Windows.

> on sale then. The hard drive is 12 Gigs. I don't know how to find the
> processor speed (on Linux!) but expect it is less than 500 MHz. During

This works on my install:

abc@ubuntu-2$ dmesg | grep "MHz processor"
[ 0.000000] Detected 3002.085 MHz processor.
abc@ubuntu-2$