1 Jun
2014
1 Jun
'14
11:53 a.m.
Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have one, or know where I could buy/trade
for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
1 Jun
1 Jun
12:04 p.m.
You'll have better luck finding a Unicorn.
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have
one, or know where I could buy/trade for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
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-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.
12:51 p.m.
New subject: R: ThinkPad 860
I remember one appeared years ago on forum.thinkpads... I guess it's more
hard to find one than to find a transnote
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Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have one, or know where I
could buy/trade for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
1:24 p.m.
Transnotes? Those aren't so hard to find. I see them on eBay every couple of months.
There's one on eBay right now for a fairly reasonable price...
I've only see one ThinkPad 800-series hit eBay in the last 8 years. I find it more
enjoyable to hunt down rare systems from individuals than to deal with buying things on
eBay.
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Subject: R: ThinkPad 860
I remember one appeared years ago on forum.thinkpads... I guess it's more
hard to find one than to find a transnote
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Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have one, or know where I
could buy/trade for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
1:58 p.m.
New subject: R: ThinkPad 860
I would tend to agree about ebay, anyway in Europe is a bit more hard to see
even a transnote offered
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A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Oggetto: RE: ThinkPad 860
Transnotes? Those aren't so hard to find. I see them on eBay every couple
of months. There's one on eBay right now for a fairly reasonable price...
I've only see one ThinkPad 800-series hit eBay in the last 8 years. I find
it more enjoyable to hunt down rare systems from individuals than to deal
with buying things on eBay.
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behalf of Mazzini Alessandro [mazzinia at tin.it]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 12:51 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: R: ThinkPad 860
I remember one appeared years ago on forum.thinkpads... I guess it's more
hard to find one than to find a transnote
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Inviato: domenica 1 giugno 2014 20:54
A: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Oggetto: ThinkPad 860
Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have one, or know where I
could buy/trade for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
3:45 p.m.
You mean its much cheaper snagging a rarity when no other bidders are
involved. ;)
Try forums.thinkpad.com and see if anybody who has one (rare even there) is
willing to sell. One sold there in 2009 for $100 + shipping I think, prices
have gone up considerable since then.
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From: Benjamin Huntsman
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 4:24 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: ThinkPad 860
Transnotes? Those aren't so hard to find. I see them on eBay every couple
of months. There's one on eBay right now for a fairly reasonable price...
I've only see one ThinkPad 800-series hit eBay in the last 8 years. I find
it more enjoyable to hunt down rare systems from individuals than to deal
with buying things on eBay.
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17 Jun
9:28 a.m.
So I may have located a PowerPC ThinkPad, but it doesn't have a hard drive. Thanks
for the forum.thinkpads.com tip.
I understand the standard one was a 1.2GB SCSI drive, part number 30H1467.
Anyone know anyone that might have a drive/caddy?
Thanks!
-Ben
9:58 a.m.
So I may have located a PowerPC ThinkPad, but it
doesn't have a hard drive. $
I understand the standard one was a 1.2GB SCSI drive,
part number 30H1467.
I don't know that machine specifically. But I have a machine using a
SCSI laptop disk; I found that an IDE disk in a SCSI<->IDE adapter did
the trick very nicely. (The disk plus the adapter was about as
physically big as the original disk - and digitally much larger.)
Depending on your tradeoffs, that might be worth investigating for you.
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10:17 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
Anyone on this list ever seen a ThinkPad 860, have
one, or know where I could buy/trade for one?
Swap for a P/390? :)
Thanks in advance!
-Ben
i have one, but i haven't done anything with it. i don't have the root
password for the linux os that's installed on it, nor do i have the
media for the version of aix that can run on it.
10:36 a.m.
On 06/17/2014 01:17 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
i don't have the root
password for the linux os that's installed on it,
You can get root easily at startup, though the initial steps vary by
distribution. The key is to interrupt the boot sequence (usually an
<esc> hit will stop it), then select whatever option is displayed for
altering the kernel parameters. Append a 1 (digit one) to the kernel
parameters and then select whichever option allows you to boot. The
system will come up in the single user mode, which is you logged on as
root. Then issue the passwd command to change the root password to
whatever you want.
BK
11 a.m.
Sometimes single user mode asks for a password (at least on a lot of modern
UNIX-likes) - if the above comment doesn't work, try appending
"init=/bin/sh" to the kernel parameters - this skips running init and drops
you in a shell. Just (re)mount the disks R/W and update the password.
2014-06-17 18:36 GMT+01:00 Barry L. Kline <lists at blkline.com>:
On 06/17/2014 01:17 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
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Yvan Janssens
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i don't have the root
password for the linux os that's installed on it,
You can get root easily at startup, though the initial steps vary by
distribution. The key is to interrupt the boot sequence (usually an
<esc> hit will stop it), then select whatever option is displayed for
altering the kernel parameters. Append a 1 (digit one) to the kernel
parameters and then select whichever option allows you to boot. The
system will come up in the single user mode, which is you logged on as
root. Then issue the passwd command to change the root password to
whatever you want.
BK
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