17 Jan
2002
17 Jan
'02
6:25 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
There's a lot more than that. There's the L40SX, N51SX, CL57SX, P70, P75,
700, 820, 830, 850, and 860.
Microchannel,
if not all) and the Thinkpad Power Seried 830.
They made an 830? I thought they had the N40 (which I don't know anything
about), the 820, 850, and 860. I've got a "Woodfield" (type 6020,
pre-GA of the 850) which is so
painfully slow under AIX 4.1.4 as to be unusable. It also suffers from a
general lack of integration testing.
Want to get rid of it?
I was actually so curious as to whether this was
inidicative of the rest
of the ThinkPad Power Series line that I spent MORE money on an 850 (type
6042). To my delight, the 850 works much better... to the point that I
could actually use it to do real work. The left trackpoint button is worn
out though.
Before I start trying to fix it, does anybody have any experience with
repairing anything like this? Should I just be looking at replacing the
whole keyboard?
It's ridiculously easy to do. Just replace the button.
Peace... Sridhar