I'm assuming you're on vacation and have a computer at home. If not- I have a ibm 600e with bad battery that's running fc4 perfectly. You can borrow it for the cost of shipping.

You can get a laptop like this off ebay for $60- likely with win95. Might be a pain to jack in linux without cd. I used network.

I think a more useful study away from a computer would be something like The Mythical Man Month or Hackers and Painters- This kind of stuff is incredibly valuable information- and you won't need a computer.