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Does anyone have a spare 701C RAM door / cover that they want to part with? The lack of this cover is no big deal, but the thing is that I am right now staying with my in-laws in the US, and will be so until next Saturday. I assume that most of the 701C stuff in the world is located in the US, so I might as well use the opportunity to have it sent here and avoid the hassle of having it shipped to Norway.

So if anyone can sell me a cover, AND have it mailed to Meridian, Idaho before next Saturday, we have a deal. Other stuff like a memory stick (16-32MB), printer/floppy port cover and PCMCIA cover can also be of interest if you happen to have those things too, and they are not too expensive.

If you happen to see this ad after next Saturday, and I haven't posted that I got a hold of this, I will probably still be interested. But be aware that you have to ship to Norway..

Thank you in advance!

those are VERY hard to find..
if you DO find one it is likely to have one or both of the locking "tabs" broken off..
a very common problem with these..
the PCMCIA door came in two versions..
one with an opening for cables to pass through and one without any opening..
these had tabs which would lock them in until the hard drive was removed.. or vice versa, I forget this moment.. and these would get bent and broken..

the printer/floppy port door was/is a rubber part that can become torn..

all the doors are the first parts to disappear..

meanwhile to all you restoring a 701 I have NEW old stock keyboard assemblies and system boards, the 486-75 8 meg versions..

a word of warning..
those 4 screws across the front edge holding the keyboard in place are torx T-1.. the tiniest size of torx screws and take some searching to find one and these are easily broken when using them without care..

other torx screws use a T-6 size..

You got a PM.
Also disregard the thing about the port cover, I misunderstood the question. (was thinking the floppy door, not the rubberish cover on the 701C's body)
I took out the port cover successfully and door.

I realized that these doors must be rare. I remember it was the same deal with various missing doors on my 360Cs, but luckily I found a parts machine which had them all. The 360Cs's PCMCIA cover wasn't very practical, as it was a hassle to remove every time a card was going in. So if the 701C one is the same, I can understand why they broke or even why people simply never put them back on.

I am actually most interested in the RAM cover, as I would like this area covered up, even if I have to tape a defective cover in place. If my hands should by accident touch the open hole when I grab the 701C, I imagine an ESD discharged directly in there can do wonders with the RAM chips.

And it now seems as if I have traced all three doors successfully. I will close this post when I have them in my hands, so people don't have to look for these item anymore.

Update: I have now found and received the RAM cover and the floppy port cover. The PCMCIA cover can still be of interest. But more from a collecting standpoint, in order to have all the parts for the machine. There is really no practical use for it as long as I use a slot. A 32MB RAM module is also still of interest. I am negotiating with a forum user who miight want to sell one of his, so maybe that gets solved too.

But from now on parts needs to be shipped to Norway.