Yes, hats of for their ingenuity and efforts to *hopefully* keep our classics up to date hardware wise. Let's just hope they make this board available to the western world and that these boards will have a more even build quality than the T50 boards apparently had.

Happy new year to all! This is my first post in a while, and I need to make a post so you guys (and girls) don't think I left for good. All is OK, it's just the fact that between a new hobby car and a new job, the Thinkpad hobby has gotten the short end of the stick since last summer. We'll talk aga...

Hi Dave

When it comes to something like that, I could definitely be interested, even if I have to pay for shipping to Norway. So let me know what price we're looking into for this item, and we'll discuss the payment options and the shipping specifics.

Thanks for the offer!

Hi As I now apparently found my long sought after 700C, I would like to see if I can find a battery for it. I have no intentions of ever trying to run it off of a battery, but I'm looking to fill the open hole that's there when the battery is removed. So even if I find a battery with cells still pre...

So I have now managed to do what I promised my self to never allow to happen. I used my Tablet 2 with it's stylus some weeks ago, and I did NOT put the stylus back in it's little home on the side of the tablet. And neglecting to put stuff back where it goes, usually results in it going missing. So a...

Wow, thanks. Good to know.

I have a G40, and I think I might have replaced the CMOS battery there at one point. But I have had no issues, so I might confuse this with one of my other 20+ legacy systems. I better open it up and check what's in there..

Long time, no see, George. I'm sorry to hear that the system eventually died, even though I had a sneaking suspicion that this might be the final outcome when I heard about the random issue you were experiencing last year. Hats off for those who initiated and created the T50 board. I just wish they ...

When ThinkPads were made by IBM, there was a NASA/IBM "US-made" connection... I also suspect that the US-made connection in the IBM days, made the IBM Thinkpad the only logical choice. IBM was such an integral part of US business back in the glory days, that it wasn't just some pc-manufacturer. It ...

Congrats on your find! And that's probably one of the biggest towers I have ever seen.

What was the exact purpose of something like this back in the days? It must have been made for something special, or to contain some special hardware. I have never seen anything quite like it..

By chance did you notice this thread here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=121049 I don't think you'll have to look much further. Hi. Yes, I'm aware of that sale. Some of you have probably already guessed that my last call is somehow connected to this sale, and it is, but I don't kn...

Ok, so I'm taking back up an old thread here. I'm currently in the process of negotiating over purchasing a 700C. This will be the first and only 700C I buy, presumable also the only unit ever from this very early era, so I want to be sure I'm doing the right thing here. But before I go ahead and fi...

One more thing regarding 600X there is one more curveball thrown at all of us, to have 650MHz, which cannot be upgraded from 450, 500 on other 600X's, need to do use different speedstep enabled compatible 600X motherboard that were originally came with 650MHz CPUs to work if upgrading to faster spe...

Hi all. I'm sorry for the late feedback. I am also, as always, a little embarrassed to tell that progress hasn't come any further at this point. I decided to take a network certification, which took all my time this spring, and with summer we have the ever returning issue of a house that needs work ...

I wasn't aware I posted the last post here. Anyway, just wanted to mention one little thing. I took a picture of the list of updates in the first post, and keep it on my phone so I have it accessible to me where ever I go. So I check it every time I do updates on any of the 5-6 computers I use regul...

Good that you figured it out. It took me a while to understand what you were trying to achieve here, as the usual way back in the days was to attempt an upgrade from MMX to PII. But for building a collection where you're trying to represent all generations, I can see how such a "downgrade" can make ...

..at one homebrew meeting, steve wozniak and steve jobs both showd up with their still in development APPLE-II and were showing it around telling us not to break it as it was the only one they had.. I ready your entire store, and I assume very few people today can claim to have been right there, at...

I use youtube maps and gmail anonymously and I enjoy their free services. So do I. You may be surprised to find out how much Google actually knows about you just from using these things "anonymously". And how the heck does one use Gmail anonymously ? You sign your messages "Sincerely, Incognito"? I...

Sitting on a piece of concrete outside, not even cleaned, is barely how you present the $20 000 collectible you're trying to sell. At least the 360PE was clean and immaculate, and had it's picture taken in stylish surroundings. :lol: Btw, anyone know if that 360PE is still up for sale? If so, it's b...

...worldwide Apple Store are being made aware that disconnecting the battery and reconnecting fixes the issue. It should be common knowledge to all stores worldwide by tomorrow. It seems like the fix is to simply disconnect the battery. Or maybe "simply" isn't the right word.. I have never worked o...

I got mine a couple of days ago, so shipping was amazingly quick, even to Europe. The caps are already tested by both my wife and I, and they are verified to be the same quality and particularly the same friction as the ones that come with new Thinkpads. The last time I bought cheap ones on eBay, I ...

The 755CV/CDV are rare. They're 755C/CD models with a removable lid (and translucent LCD,) allowing the machine to be laid on an overhead projector. I second that, as I have never seen one. That's one of those they (probably) didn't sell too many of to begin with. And in those days, where CPU speed...

I did that too last week with two machines. Both a T410 running Win7 and a T420 running Win10. I had to go back to V3.81 on both of them. It has been this way for a long time now, I have no idea why the newer OSD versions refuses to work.

Just increase the price, I'm ok with that. When someone goes through the trouble of making a custom made part like this is available, I usually pay what it costs, period. :-) Shipping to Norway and a pretty unfavorable exchange rate these days make everything I buy from the US very expensive, so thi...

I think I posted my interest for a T420 non-s kit last year, but repeating it just in case you survey these posts. Also looking forward to getting the details of why it seems to be a challenge making these kits work, and hopefully get to hear if reliable kits will ever become available.

I believe that David Hill might be the man in the system that could potentially make this happen, but as he says, there are too many factors to take into account. This detail has probably been stated by me and others in this thread before, though. If the product is good, it's worth waiting for you m...

Thanks for posting, I wasn't aware. Sad to read that. I am however surprised to see that he was 60 by the time the 700C was launched. I have read the Different Shade of Blue a couple of times (Highly recommended bed-side lecture for all ThinkPad fans) but I don't think the book gave a clear picture ...

It would make sense, read this post in Lenovo forum We asked David Hill, Lenovo's Chief Design Officer, during a Periscope Q&A. Here are the highlights of what he said: - I would love to release something like this for the ThinkPad's 25th Anniversary (2017) Even though I have a goal of staying posi...

It depends on how you define rare. I think it falls under two categories. Like George says, some machines are rare today simply because they are old and the vast majority of them are gone. The 701C and 700C probably fall under that category. Quite common back in the days, but today, the good example...

*Thread drift approved by admin - One more from me* :lol: Your philosophy on cars seem to match mine pretty well. I like the older BMW 5-series; big, safe and comfortable, but like your Mercedes, they had some pretty advanced electronics for their time. So unless you can fix stuff on your own, they ...

Some BMW diagnostic also seemed to make use of the T30 back in the days. But I actually don't know if it refused to work on any other laptop, or if the T30 was the choice just because it was a sturdy laptop and well suited for use in a workshop. Some years back you could buy this software on eBay fr...