@ joe ford
have a look at puppy linux, make older machines run very quickly
I've been using puppy full time for a couple of years now, I have a couple of eeepc's running just 630mHz and they fly
i have a raspberry pi for messing about with linux as a local webserver and general mucking about with...
One of these in a collectors and antique fair
that stuff looks good for fly line backing, do you have a link ?