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My IBMs -- Thinkpads as well as desktops
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:26 pm
by leoblob
Here's my crew:
Thinkpads: Front, my TP360 (incredibly thin for its day... the monochrome display helped). To its right, TP365X. Back, i1452 (that's not a stain on there, it's glare from the lens of my very cheap camera). The 360 is by far the smallest. The relative proportions in this photo aren't right
Desktops: Two PC300GLs (stacked, back left), Intellistation. My 300PL is in another room (but it looks exactly like the 300GLs).
You can see my quasi Model M keyboard on the far right.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:41 pm
by pianowizard
Thanks for sharing your setup. How come you don't own a more modern Thinkpad?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:43 pm
by leoblob
I haven't needed "mobility" for quite a while. Besides, thinkpads are so well built that you should be able to get 10 - 15 years out of them, no problem.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:21 pm
by gator
leoblob wrote:I haven't needed "mobility" for quite a while. Besides, thinkpads are so well built that you should be able to get 10 - 15 years out of them, no problem.
Though that is true, PW was probably asking whether you don't need a newer thinkpad for CPU speed, more RAM etc ...
Out of plain curiosity, what OS are you running on these machines and what is the CPU/RAM spec on these thinkpads?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:44 pm
by ryengineer
Great collection, I love IBM built machines.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:03 pm
by pianowizard
gator wrote:PW was probably asking whether you don't need a newer thinkpad for CPU speed, more RAM etc ...
I guess leoblob gets all the speed he needs from his desktop computers.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:26 pm
by leoblob
Until my wife changed careers about 2 years ago, the 360 was used for running her DOS-based court reporting software, so I loaded it with DOS 6.3. That computer has a 486sx33 and 12 MB. The machine originally came with WIN3.1 and it ran that pretty fast.
The 365x came with WIN95 and I've done several clean installs of WIN98SE over the years. It has a P120 (no MMX) and 72 MB of RAM. In fact, I originally found this board when I was searching how to go beyond the 40MB limit these machines came with. WIN98SE runs OK on this machine.
The i1452 has a Celeron 366 and 256MB of RAM. It came with WIN98 and it now has a clean install of WIN2K. I think the video chipset is the weak link here. Web browsing is quite slow.
I really spend all my time on the desktop machines now, especially the Intellistation. The desktops are all running WIN2K. I'm planning on "sacrificing" the 300GL on the top, as the victim in my efforts to learn XP (I do not like learning new software.)
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:28 pm
by pianowizard
leoblob wrote:The i1452 has a Celeron 366 and 256MB of RAM and it's running WIN2K. I think the video chipset is the weak link here. Web browsing is quite slow.
I used to run Win XP Pro on a TP 240 with 366MHz Celeron and 192MB PC66 RAM. Performance was not too shabby.
Re: My IBMs -- Thinkpads as well as desktops
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:42 pm
by leoblob
Sorry. Thanks for the suggestion. I was still on dial-up as recently as last October. How soon I forget!
