The old and I mean old ThinkPads

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pianowizard · #61 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:54 pm

Eric Giles wrote:I picked up a brand new 701C 2630-2TU with 540MB hard drive for $1600 shipped-which I thought was an absolute steal!

Thanks for the nice story! I didn't start paying close attention to laptop prices until late 2002, and have no idea that they were so expensive back in the mid 1990s! I remember the Compaq Outlet store in Houston TX had some $399 refurbished laptops back in the summer of 1995 though. I was about to go to college and was somewhat tempted to get one.

Eric Giles · #62 Post by **Eric Giles** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:28 pm

Thanks for the nice story! I didn't start paying close attention to laptop prices until late 2002, and have no idea that they were so expensive back in the mid 1990s! I remember the Compaq Outlet store in Houston TX had some $399 refurbished laptops back in the summer of 1995 though. I was about to go to college and was somewhat tempted to get one.

$399 for a refurbed laptop in 1995 was unheard of-at least to me! These days, people talk about not wanting to spend much over $1000 for a loaded to the gills laptop-well, I personally bought three of the absolute top of the line Thinkpads brand new back in the mid-late '90's. One 760ED, and two 770ED's...and I paid between $5200 and 5700 for each of them! That's right-over $15,000 on laptop computers within a 3 year period that are worth maybe $300 total right now.

We have it really good right now, as you can get a very, very nice Thinkpad for under $2000 these days. I personally look back and cannot believe I paid that much for those...and at the time I thought it was worth it!

doppelfish · #63 Post by **doppelfish** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:05 am

pianowizard wrote:[...] lots of old (and new) Thinkpads,

Same here (but, sadly, not mine). Sigh ...

cheers,
-- fish

Website · #64 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:51 am

doppelfish wrote:
pianowizard wrote:[...] lots of old (and new) Thinkpads,
Same here (but, sadly, not mine). Sigh ...

cheers,
-- fish

Hey -fish....sweet collection...

#65 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:36 am

Eric Giles wrote:We have it really good right now, as you can get a very, very nice Thinkpad for under $2000 these days. I personally look back and cannot believe I paid that much for those...and at the time I thought it was worth it!

When you consider inflation and that each dollar had more worth back in the old days, it makes the prices now that much better.

doppelfish · #66 Post by **doppelfish** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:42 am

tfflivemb2 wrote:[...] Hey fish....sweet collection... ;-)

Danggit! *G*

makaveli559m · #67 Post by **makaveli559m** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:39 pm

img]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/ ... sVista.jpg[/img]

Here is my old Thinkpad A20m running Windows Vista Ultimate

Note from Moderator: I don't care if this is the pictures forum, that first one is not work-friendly. Read the Rules of the Road at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=14339 and adhere to them.

moronoxyd · #68 Post by **moronoxyd** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:30 pm

My IBM ThinkPad 340CSE. I call him "granpa"

Memory upgrade of 8 MB, making a rocking total of 12 MB. (Yes, I should have bought a 16 MB module. Stupid me.)
Original 320 MB harddrive replace with a 2 GB model.

This beauty runs Win95 (the screenshot shows Win3.1 with calmira) -- well, would be running Win95, if it wouldn't give me trouble right now. The battery doesn't get charged and the power connection has hick-ups, too.

I hope I can get that fixed somehow...

Website · #69 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:36 pm

moronoxyd wrote:My IBM ThinkPad 340CSE. I call him "granpa"

Great...another model that I need to track down...

Seriously though...this model seems pretty cool...I'll have to keep an eye out for one.

pianowizard · #70 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:38 pm

tfflivemb2 wrote:Great...another model that I need to track down...

Many more ancient Thinkpads for your to track down!

#71 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:39 pm

I found a ThinkPad 755CE at a thrift shop today. However, it was missing modem, modem cover, back port cover, hard drive, AC adapter and the asking price was a fixed $39.95. Maybe if it was still 1995 that'd be a good deal but not today.

Website · #72 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:44 pm

pianowizard wrote:
tfflivemb2 wrote:Great...another model that I need to track down...
Many more ancient Thinkpads for your to track down!

Actually, I already have that site bookmarked...thanks though...

#73 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:25 pm

Do you also have www.aichi.to/~thinkpad bookmarked?

Website · #74 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:45 pm

yep...

#75 Post by **gator** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:10 am

http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~ayase/tp/pc110.htm
That is one sexy gadget! - anyone here has one of these?

NS · #76 Post by NS » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:25 am

I want a thinkpad 701C.

justin412 · #77 Post by **justin412** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:08 am

gator wrote:http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~ayase/tp/pc110.htm
That is one sexy gadget! - anyone here has one of these?

I agree, that is very sexy. Personally, I miss my old 600e. I sold it when I bought a new Toshiba laptop. I didn't realize how much I loved using a thinkpad until I got a T40 from work. Now, I don't see how I could ever use anything else again. The 600e was a beautiful beast. I think I remember field stripping that thing so many times to do work on it... I had repaired it from two broken ones, upgraded the processor on it to a 400MHz PII, maxed out the ram, and it ran windows XP like a charm. Could never get video playback working on it though. Just wasn't powerful enough for that, I guess.

#78 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:06 am

Did you ever put the display to 16-bit fcolor as opposed to 24-bit? Every 600E I've owned played DVDs and some DivX files perfectly when set to 16-bit color but when set to 24-bit, it'd either play horribly or not at all.

justin412 · #79 Post by **justin412** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:13 pm

Nope, I never thought to do that

jruschme · #80 Post by **jruschme** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:35 pm

AlphaKilo470 wrote:Did you ever put the display to 16-bit fcolor as opposed to 24-bit? Every 600E I've owned played DVDs and some DivX files perfectly when set to 16-bit color but when set to 24-bit, it'd either play horribly or not at all.

Not too surprising... under Linux, at least, the video is not accelerated at 24-bit. I would guess, though, that the limitation is hardware based.

#81 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:01 pm

I assume it's hardware based. There's only so much a 2.5mb video chip-set is capable of.

#82 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:20 am

This isn't a ThinkPad and in fact, it's not even an IBM but I thought I'd post it anyway. I acquired a Toshiba T1200 with AC adapter and carry bag at a garage sale for $5 yesterday. It has 640kb RAM, an 80c86 CPU, non-blacklit monochrome STN LCD (CGA resolution) and dual 720kb floppy drives. The amazing part is that the battery on this computer, after almost two decades, still works! In fact, the first of the three photos I took of the T1200 shows it running off battery.

(Pictures taken with a Sony Mavica FD100 I paid $5 for at the same garage sale the T1200 came from)
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-11/ ... C-002F.JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-11/ ... C-003F.JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-11/ ... C-004F.JPG

#83 Post by **gator** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:06 pm

That is amazing - thanks for the Toshiba pics AlphaKilo470. The keyboard in that machine will win hands down compared to any laptop keyboard today (including thinkpads)!

WarMachine · #84 Post by **WarMachine** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:31 pm

Hello !

This machine will arrive soon (a 750C, if I'm not mistaken) :

Warning : 18+ only allowed to watch : This pic contains nudity.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs116&d=07241&f=IMAG0051.JPG

(What a teaser !!!)

More pics and more infos about the specs to come...

Stay tuned !

W.

pianowizard · #85 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:45 am

WarMachine wrote:This machine will arrive soon (a 750C, if I'm not mistaken) :

I bet the T63's screen bezel will be as wide as this!

#86 Post by **ryengineer** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:42 am

WarMachine wrote:This machine will arrive soon (a 750C, if I'm not mistaken)

It looks a little naked

without a trackpoint.

WarMachine · #87 Post by **WarMachine** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:51 am

Yeah, that's true...

I've edited my post...

W.

WarMachine · #88 Post by **WarMachine** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:22 am

Well, here are pics of my "new" thinkpad, a 755Cs :

(Click to enlarge)

W.

#89 Post by **KristianJ** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:25 am

I missed out on one of those (or a 750 of some sort) a couple of nights ago on eBay - was a late finishing auction and my fingers froze on me because of the cold when I was trying to snipe at the end. It ended up going for $10.50 Australian...would have loved to reacquaint myself with WFW again...

#90 Post by **ryengineer** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:32 am

WarMachine wrote:Well, here are pics of my "new" thinkpad, a 755Cs

The machine looks so good especially in the 1st picture.

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