[ltp] Hardware q's tp 760

[Bill Turner]

Morning all,

I have a TP 760-EL (?) with P-120, 72MB RAM and 3GB IDE hdd.  Has the
LCD screen.  I bought the system used from a grad student at the U.W.
in Seattle and also got the original manuals and diskettes as he'd
been the only owner previously.  I run Linux on it exclusively.  Other
than the graphics being a bit lacking - which was the reason I got it
so cheap - it's a really nice system and I'm pleased with it.

I also have a docking station.  I have an internal floppy and 1 Li
battery.  I did have an external PCMCIA CDROM from Altec but that
"died" when the power supply cable "went south" and when I contacted
Altec I was told that they no longer made that anymore as it was
"obsolete" so now I have no CDROM.

I do not have docs for the docking station.  The questions I have are
pretty straight-forward and I did go to the IBM site first to do a bit
of looking around but couldn't find the info I was searching for.

1.  How would I go about getting things such as a replacement power
cord?  My laptop right now has to be recharged via the docking
station.  

2.  I have some space insode the laptop and I was considering putting
in another hard drive.  How difficult would something like that be? 
How expensive?  Obviously I don't want to put a lot of money into a
used system but I've been very pleased with this IBM and if it's not
going to cost an arm and a leg - and the rights to my first-born :)  -
I'd like to do some minor upgrades.

3.  I need a CDROM.  I think in my own case an external model makes
the most sense.  That way I could use it on both the laptop and my
desktop system.  Does IBM even offer an external model - preferrably a
CD-RW vs. a straight CDROM - that would be truly portable as I've
described?

First post to the list.  Just like to add that I've always had "good
experiences" with IBM and it really doesn't surpise me all that much
to see them supporting Linux.  Kudos for that.

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