IBM P70-386 portable machines

I took out my pair of these tonight to see what level of functionality they're in. One of them gives a "dead HD" error on bootup (see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6370/errores.html) which was confirmed by downloading the boot/diagnostics disk and firing it up with that (see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6370/models.html for disks, if you've got a PS/2 that needs them). Turns out one of these also has the 300/1200/2400 modem and the PS/2 (MCA-bus, woah, in a portable!) SCSI card w/cache (its got two SIMM sticking on it, even). Right now I cant figure out how to get the HD out of the machine so I can swap it with the one from the other box (or possibly replace it with another IBM drive, these look to be the proprietaary PS/2 card-edge- connector HDs). Anybody got one or more of these machines that they'd like to "dispose" of, if I pay shipping? I love the red plasma display, and plan to use this box (if I can get it fully working with a HD) on my packet radio station. I've got this other semi-DOA (no screen display, no beeps, but power lights) 70-386, and in the garage somewhere, a complete (no manuals, but it boots and works, and has the I/O expansion "slice") IBM PC Convertible laptop, with power supply in IBm canvase carrying case, if anybody's interested and wants to swap something for them. I've also got this MCA-bus SCSI controller card w/cache, if that would prove useful to anyone... (I cant use it, it has the funky IBM-proprietary external SCSI connector on back). Bill (man, plasma displays are wonderful, wish I could find more machines that used them.. I've already got a couple of Toshiba 3x00 laptops that i use as VT100 terminals; anybody else know of portable machines that used similar displays?) -- Bill Bradford * mrbill(a)mrbill.net / http://www.mrbill.net mrbill(a)sunhelp.org / http://www.sunhelp.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using Windows NT for mission-critical applications." -- What Yoda *meant* to say