9 Feb
1998
9 Feb
'98
1:41 p.m.
thinkpad 700 and 720x are mca thinkpads. had a 3 year warranty and dont share
any parts with any other thinkpad. of course, windont95 wont work on them,
although linux probably would since it's been coaxed to work on other mca
boxes.
david
9 Feb
9 Feb
5:03 p.m.
Actually, Win95 runs fine, with the exception of PCMCIA support. If you
don't mind using dos PCMCIA drivers, you're fine. Although I believe that
the 700c will only run in 16 colours under Windows. We still use a couple
of those rugged little 720's as portable scanning units with W95/pcmcia
scsi adapters; you can't beat the warranty or the return service!
Aaron
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
thinkpad 700 and 720x are mca thinkpads. had a 3 year
warranty and dont share
any parts with any other thinkpad. of course, windont95 wont work on them,
although linux probably would since it's been coaxed to work on other mca
boxes.
david
2:46 p.m.
Actually, Win95 runs fine, with the exception of
PCMCIA support. If you
don't mind using dos PCMCIA drivers, you're fine. Although I believe that
the 700c will only run in 16 colours under Windows. We still use a couple
of those rugged little 720's as portable scanning units with W95/pcmcia
scsi adapters; you can't beat the warranty or the return service!
Aaron
Aaron, are you sure it supports PCMCIA? This notebook has none, it's
so old and still in MCA age. :)
Oh, by the way, I will contact you soon when I conclude the deal with
owner of this wrecked notebook. Should be a day or so.
BTW, some top-tier current notebooks if looked carefully have 3 year
warrenty too and can be brought extended warrenties on some of in
current warrentied stuff.
But be careful with Toshibas, they're out to pull your leg especially
on warrenty and faulty s/w especially when making one-shot disk sets
sometimes blew up. If one did their pointed researches first then no
problem.
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
> thinkpad 700 and 720x are mca thinkpads. had a 3 year warranty and dont share
> any parts with any other thinkpad. of course, windont95 wont work on them,
> although linux probably would since it's been coaxed to work on other mca
> boxes.
That 700C has the win 3.1 installed.
>
> david
>
Jason D.
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
8:59 p.m.
Sorry, my mistake. I forgot that the 700 is sans pcmcia. The 720's have 2
card slots, which will only work with dos drivers. I used an Adaptec
(Trantor) parallel scsi on it, with some difficulties. Beware the parallel
ports on these; I have been through some trying times with various
scsi/network adapters only to be told by the manufacturers that their
products did not support this series' "non-standard" ports. Do any IBM
guru's out there know how this port differs from the "standard"?
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca wrote:
Aaron, are you sure it supports PCMCIA? This notebook
has none, it's
so old and still in MCA age. :)
Jason D.
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
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