[ltp] Hardware q's tp 760

[the Professor]

This may sound funky, but shop on eBay.

I purchased a 760ed from a guy, no good battery, no harddrive, no power
cable, no cdrom.

I have managed to get the power cable, cdrom and am waiting on a couple used
batteries to arrive.  All in all, less than $100.00 was spent on eBay items
to fill in what I was missing.
The harddrive I have was given by a friend.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Turner" <wildbill@speakeasy.org>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:50 AM
Subject: [ltp] Hardware q's tp 760


> 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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