From the picture it looks like it's running AIX version 3 something. I'm sorry I missed the auction. I did Y2K migrations from that version.
If anything went wrong with that unit, I would have no idea where parts or install media could be located to fix it.

I purchased old stock sealed boxes before. It's most likely dead. The safety circuitry I wrote about before won't allow the battery to be charged.

There are a couple of issues in addition to dead cells that have made refurbishing the battery impractical. The largest obstacle seems to be the physical circuitry that stops the unit from being recharged (over charged) once the voltage drops below a set point. I have read that people have bypassed ...

E=Enhanced. To oversimplify, the CPU was changed to a full 486 rather than the rebranded/expanded 386 IBM had

It's not a null cable for LapLink. But the Microsoft version might work with it.

LapLink came with blue cables for serial ports and yellow for parallel port It's 1990's technology. It used to be available everywhere. Microsoft had their own version. The company is still around but they don't sell licenses for the original products anymore. You will have to get a boxed copy on eb...

I never opened them. To get the 750/360/PC-DOS systems captured, I had to get a copy of LapLink 5 installed and hooked to a win98 ThinkPad with a USB port. Once I was able to transfer the entire directory structure to the USB key I could take it to a modern system and create a VMware copy of the old...

I'm always interested in the OEM image.

Yup. Lenovo does the same. You have sub models available for quick shipping or custom orders that end with CTO.

The 701's were all available from March 1995 except for the 7SU/7TU available in September 1995
It was for different CPU/HDD/Display type combinations.

Size of the hard drive it was shipped with:

360MB, 540MB, and 720MB respectively.

I got them via ebay

I keep a spare X230T unit updated and ready to ship in case I have an emergency failure while traveling on business. I pulled it out, powered it up and did the monthly patching from Microsoft and Lenovo. I left it running after it completed the patches from Lenovo. I believe it was only "Hotkey Feat...

I have an IBM 802.11abg Wireless CardBus Adapter, but the drivers are for 2000 and XP. I was not able to get it to connect via modern WPA2-PSK [AES], only WPA. I also have a Netgear MA401 Wi-Fi 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA Card that works with Win95b and Win98 (and NT, ME, 2K, etc.), but the best I can c...

I've only seen marketing flyers of those models. The price would depend upon the collector. If they have everything including original software, I'd think $200 would be reasonable, but that is just me.

Doesn't the unit need to be taken apart to remove the hard disk drive?

If you are able to get the IBM brand of diskettes I would recommend them over new/post year 2000 disks. The older drives may not be able to read disks formatted using newer equipment. At least that has been my experience. I got my 730TE working again and created the PenPoint 1.2 install disks and ad...

How would you get to the prompt, is there a key combination or it detects the floppy and goes into selection for boot from floppy or start the os? I will probably find when I get the floppy... I will see if I can verify later this week, but the unit should by default attempt to boot from floppy fir...

It's just like installing DOS. You boot from the install disk and follow the prompts. It's a customized version of PenWrite for the 710T/730T/TE and looks for the digitizer (I assume that is what it looks for) upon startup. Because the check, it won't install on anything else, including a 360P/PE (d...

PenPoint is the OS. It's not an installed application for PC/MS-DOS like MS Windows was. That being said, it does/did have a "DOS like" filesystem structure (but then again, so did VAX) just in case someone else remembers seeing it. My 730TE is dead, so I can't look, but I think you will need to rei...

Yeah, me too. I have not been able to get the movie playback/decoder to work on W2K. There are several long threads here regarding the subject.

PC110: IBM PC-DOS 6.1J
720: IBM PC-DOS 3.3, 5.01, 6.1
750Cs: IBM AIX/PS2 1.3
820: IBM AIX 4.2.1
PC110: MS Windows 3.1J
360P/PE: MS Windows for Pen 1.3 (IBM)
701: MS Windows 3.11
240: Win98SE
770X: 2000
365CSD: SCO OpenServer 5.0.5
365ED: Win95 Russian

I've always had to install Win98/98SE on the 770X from retail media and install drivers later by hand, but of course I don't have the correct recovery media either.

I've used the 600X Win2K recovery CD's successfully with the 770X, but the 600X Win98 Recovery fails during the OS customization part and will blue screen after a reboot.
If you are trying to do Win95, it may be failing due to a real mode driver version difference between the X and Z models.

750's do NOT boot from PCMCIA HDD The 360's do, BUT it has to be a PCMCIA III HDD from about the time of the BIOS was written. If there are too many cylinders or whatever, the system won't be able to use it. For example, the 1GB IBM Microdrive required an BIOS update to boot in the 360CE/PE PC110 bo...

I don't have a solution, but it sounds like what can happen when a BIOS flash goes wrong, it could also easily be hardware related.

Here's the thread. It originally was for the 600, but it's the same process for almost all the older and newer Lenovo (at least it's similar for the X230) https://www.wimsbios.com/forum/notebook-bios-and-other-problems-f38/ibm-thinkpad-600-bios-update-without-working-battery-t7229.html I did it on a...

goldeneagle wrote: Glad I updated all my BIOSes while I did.

Somewhere there are instructions for bypassing the battery requirement for the BIOS flash. Takes a couple of floppies as I recall.

goldeneagle wrote: Any chance you can zip up the demo program and share on dropbox? I try to collect them from the various older models.

As soon as I get a chance, I will see what I can do.

goldeneagle wrote: I hope you didn't send it to batteryrefill.com...

I don't recall who, but I never saw that battery again.

jaspen-meyer wrote:Which 32mb cards which work in this machine?

Kinston had 32MB cards labeled with model numbers that included "750" and "360" in the names. The "360" was non-parity.
I don't know if there was a 370 specific card, but if anything was going to work, it would be the non-parity version.