I completely disassembled and cleaned the G41 (288692u) and looked at all the connectors to see if it would be feasible to put a floppy drive into the space occupied by the CD/DVD drive. It really isn't doable in any way that makes sense. I looked at floppy drive module from a T30. The connectors on...

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Ugh! About the "A" series and a touch pad. Of course, you are right. I was relying on my memory last night. I did not have my several pages of legal pad notes on various models and features with me.

Hmmm. I wonder if I can splice a touch pad into a track point machine.....;>)

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Hi ajkula66 I LIKE the way you think: creative....;>) I plan to disassemble the G41 further to clean it. I will look at the physical plug in of the optical drive and compare it to a floppy module from my T30. It is an interesting idea. In the end, I think I will leave the G41 in original condition a...

Hi Neil Your point is a good one.......if I were smart enough to use a "normal" OS.....;>) The OS/2 install starts with three floppy discs. When the install process takes over from the BIOS, support for the floppy disappears and everything comes to a halt. Even if the install was accomplished, I pre...

Thank you for taking the time to look up this information. It agrees with what I see on this G41. It has been upgraded to 2 Gigs of RAM. I took a little time this afternoon to disassemble it a bit further. I can confirm that it will not be possible to add a floppy drive. There is no socket on the mo...

"RealBlackStuff" and "ajkula66", thank you both very much for your informative replies. I hope to have some time in the next few days to disassemble this G41 further. I will explore the links that you both have provided. There is a floppy sized plastic bezel on the side of the case, but I don't see ...

I use OS/2 as my my main OS. I also use floppy discs on a regular basis. I wanted a three spindle machine to replace the one that I have been using for several years which was limited to only 512 Meg of RAM. It looked like the "G" series was a good candidate as it was reasonably fast and the hardwar...

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Hi Thank you very much for the welcome!! How time flies....;>) I joined when I got my T30. It has been happily running OS/2 since. I do still have a use for floppies and I am trying to get the convenience of a machine that has an optical drive and a floppy drive available simultaneously. Thanks and ...

Hi Thank you VERY much for the quick and very useful reply. I was not aware of PSREF. I will look into that source of information. I think there is good support for the Texas Instrument chips. I will check for Ricoh support. Again, thank you very much. The Lenovo PSREF (Personal system reference) do...

Hi I am looking for a three spindle machine to run OS/2 on. I have not found a definitive answer to what PCMCIA controller these machines use. Is there someone who has one running that would look in Windows hardware manager or run a hardware detection program to get this information? I am hoping tha...