[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[James Knott]

James McKenzie wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> 
>> ash wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 15:07 -0600, Sample User wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have an IBM Thinkpad 760XL - still kickin' =)  (Made in 1997)
>>>> (Using it now to send this e-mail - gotta love IBM for quality)
>>>
>>>
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>>> Not for linux, though...? ;)
>>>
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>>
>> A few years ago, I was running Linux on a similar model, the 760ED. 
>> Worked OK, but I'd imagine it's not fast enough for current distros.
>>
> James and ash:
> 
> I've run just about every M$ OS on a 760ED (I did not do the install of 
> XP, but I do know that it 'ran'.)  I've also run OS/2 3.0 and 4.0 on it. 
>  We also installed, in multi-boot, RH 7.3 and RH8 on it.  It was a tight 
> fit, but it booted and ran RH better than M$ 2000.  Unfortunately, I 
> don't know what happened to the 760ED as it went to a starving college 
> student.
> I do have a 600E that I've run just about everything on, and that was 
> the first system I ran RH on.  I since moved up and onto an A22p.  I've 
> been looking at a new system, but this one works and will do for now.

At work at that time, my own computer was a 760E and the ED was a test 
system.  They were extremely similar computer.  I ran OS/2 on my 760E, 
but could easily replace the hard disk with one from the ED and it also 
ran linux well.  Back in those days, I generally had about a dozen 
various ThinkPad models at my desk, along with several swapable drives, 
loaded with OS/2, Windows 95 & NT, along with the Linux one.  There were 
many more computers (over 100), both ThinkPad and IBM desktop systems, 
in our lab.