Thinkpads Forum

ThinkPad 755CD:

Manufactured in June of 1995

100mhz Intel DX4, 16mb RAM (8mb on board, 8mb IC-DRAM card), 10" VGA TFT, 810mb hard drive, Win 98SE, 28.8 modem, CD-ROM, 1mb WD90C20 video. Battery and AC-Adapter absent.

$15 shipped within the US.

what is the condition of this milestone thinkpad..?

Kinda like my 600X...

When it's open, it looks great; keyboard even looks good. Screen is somewhat dim but so are most 755s I see. Shut, there is wear on the paint; probably got ruffled around in storage somewhere. The CD drive is a 20X unit from the 760XD I had. I have the video cables. Unit still feels solid and I'm pretty sure it'd suck to drop this on one's foot.

Until it sells, I'm using it as a dedicated MP3 player for my bedroom stereo system. I'd keep it if I had a good battery and ac adapter for it (I just jerry-rigged an ac adapter). However, with the 600X here, a 770ED at my desk and an OmniBook 600 in the collectionas well as those two Fujitsu mini laptops, it's best I do some housekeeping.

Onto the thread drifting, you say it's a landmark model and I do agree. However, I am somewhat curious about the model. The DX4 model lacks L2 cache and doesn't support LiIon batteries. when they made the Pentium 75 model along with the 755CX, they added lithium ION support but only the 755CX got the SVGA screen. Why not put the better screen on their multimedia model as well; it already has a (at the time) decent hardware video system and it has video input.

Is there a COA on the bottom of the machine for Win98SE?

The machine doesn't as it didn't ship with 98SE. However, there is a COA affixed to the front of the 98SE user guide with a product key that matches the one entered in the computer.

There's no installation media provided.

Thank-you

EDIT (from AlphaKilo470): Thanks for the bumps.