Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I'm looking for an IBM Thinkpad 701C or 701CS (the one with the
butterfly keyboard), as well as a Thinkpad 860. Anyone have any
available? They have to be working.
Peace... Sridhar
I have two 701C butterflies. One has a cracked bezel, but works OK. The
other boots but has a horizontal roll unless the lid is held at a specific
point. They have A/C adapters but no working batteries. I think the one
AC adapter cost me about as much as the computer. My goal was to install
OS/2 2.0 or 2.1 on them but haven't gotten that far yet. Are you looking
for cosmetic perfection? If so neither of these are good. If you do find a
source for some 701Cs in really good shape I'd be interested in one also.
It seems the ones on eBay are a real crap shoot and I'm tired of getting
burned. The keyboards are a work of art though.
Mark
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