MOD EDIT: Please trim down your quoting when it comes to a very big post. Thank you! Seems a shame to use your time on a wonderfull trip like this editing pics. Here is my less than humble recomondations. Go with the X-series, store pics on thumb drives and or memory cards, use the laptop to cull y...

Did you have to turn up the screen brightness?

Now I'm looking to buy another IBM laptop, since the 760XL only have 1Mb Video RAM and i want to use a laptop for video as well:) But I will keep my old 760XL and still mess around with it:) With regards Jan The 770 series is selling cheap on evilbay now, some have 4mb video, all have built in USB ...

Thanks for the tip, found a 3Com 3CXFE574BT on ebay, looked it up and it supports both 16 and 32 bit plus 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX. Sposed to work with windows 95 < XP plus DOS, prolly OS/2 and Linux drivers out there somewhere. http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/prodlist.jsp?tab=cat&pathtype=support...

Thankyou jrw, thats the kind of info I was hoping for.
ANy body else?

Whats a good ethernet card for the pre-CardBus Thinkpads?
In no particular order I would like one thats high speed, x-jack, reliable, and easy to find used on ebay.
It's time my dsl modem played nice with my Thinkpads.
TIA

Okay, I understand looking at this from the leading edge angle, but I see it from the trailing edge, a 256mb flash drive in a 701C or 240 would work fine for someone who still uses small operating systems llike Dos, Win3.1, OS/2 or a small linux. And the hard drives made for the 701 are not fast and...

Thanks, bout what I figgered. Will see if I can restore function, otherwise will part it out as it's mostly tore down now.

While I have had mostly great luck with ebay not this time. A plain 9548-40U, that I think should have had a 233 came with a 200mhz MMC-1 board, PMC20005001AA. If I remember right this one had keyboard issues as well. What else will be a proablem besides the ESC - F1 "keys on boot" if I go with a PI...

1988, brought from Sears a Lazer brand Compact XT, 512kb of memory, CGA or Herc graphics, one 5 1/2 floppy in the side like an Apple IIC. Tried to order the chips to reach 640k, ended up with the add on 1mb LIM board! No chips tho. Wasn't long till I was up to 640 tho. Less than a year later got the...

My 760CD has just spent a week filling in for the XP box that died, bit slower than I remembered but still works.

Yeah, Lithium cells are more touchy, more nasty when things go wrong too.

*sigh*. Although...can someone bring back the old 240Z series? That was a good design. Slap on a 16MByte Radeon M7, a ULV Dothan and a 2GByte memory limit and you got a good machine once again. My 240 weights under 3 lbs. :P :P Be nice to have a current Thinkpad that fit this market nich, usable li...

Is this when the drive is in the UltrabayII or connected by cable?
Is it a Ultrabay II drive?

I only have a guess, your externall cable is bad and if you are using it internally my guess is worthless.

Good luck and I hope somebody with more expertese adds their reply.

kev

Humm, I have a M13 sitting here too, fru#92G7461. Bought it used for maybe $20 from a computer recycler, with cord.

I have several older ones, mom bought a Aptiva back in 97 and it was not a good unit.

Looks nothing like it, this place is far easier to navigate.
Spose they would settle for the url and you just pick another one?
Sure would screw up a lotta peoples bookmarks tho.

The compact version of the M, no seperate number pad. Mine died so am using a FRU# 1392090 made on 27May1993.
I don't type a whole lot but remisive carpel tunnel and a touch of artherites make using the buckeling spring keysboards an easy choice.

Click disks sell on ebay for very little
Parrellel port Zip and LS-120s are common and cheap too, ocasionly see a new in box items even.
I bought a new Parellel port CDRW for less than $50.

Has anybody found a paint that looks and feels like whats on the 600?
I really like my little 240 but the surface has very little grip, might explane why so many broken 240's on ebay?

If the pen is mighter than the sword,
just think how dangerous a computer is.

I have read this webtoon for the last 7 years, thought this one is about the best.

http://www.ubersoft.net/comics/hd20050726.png

Same challange here cept I don't have a externall USB or PCMCIA cd drive. Found a NIB Backpacker USB/parallel port CDRW drive on that auction site and paid less than $40. Will make it much easier to install an OS on both the 240 and the 701C. Won't really bother me if it won't write, as long as it w...

More than 25, only the first and my current desktop were new tho.
While some people gotta be at the bleeding edge of tech I buy at the dying edge.
Forgot to mention, 12 of them are Thinkpads, no other laptops represented in my collection.

As opposed to bloated cow, ie: Longhorn?

Edit: BTW Vista is a brand name for soup crackers and other value priced baked goods.

If the 600 has the best the 770 series is a close 2nd.

wikki is a great, but not compleat, they seldom mention aftermarket options.

Of course the nice advantage of mounting a 2.88 into the 770's floppy case is it should still work as an external floppy for other thinkpads.

Depending on what you count I have 6 or 8. 1.44 floppy, FRU 12J0425 CD 24x, FRU 02K0515, Sanyo DVD, FRU 05K9066 2nd hard drive adapter takes Ultrabay or UltrabayII hard drives in caddies Zip 100 Made by CNF LS-120 Made by VST 2nd battery adapter Blank for drive bay, from Selectadock III Wish list. C...

Thankyou!
I seems to be working for now but I wanted to test the battery to see how much life it had left.

How handy are you?
You should be able to make one from a Ultraslimbay battery thats died.