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From left to right: 570 ultrabase, no clue, 760ED or XD, a 560, a T2x, 600, two 570s, another 600, X3x, 240.

AlphaKilo470:

The notebook that you have no clue about is the TP 701C/CS.

Btw, schnitzelcore: pretty impressive collection. Are all of these laptops operational ??

They're all operational, running Debian GNU/Linux Lenny/Sid. They all have their memory pretty much maxed out, harddisks are unfortunately still mostly original/old. They work but some are pretty slow and/or produce quite some noise.
The 760 is a 760cd, it has video in/out and I have the necessary cable. Running Linux it's not possible to get that working unfortunately, it is also the only machine that doesn't have working sound under Linux. Getting sound to work on the 560x and 600 was pretty hellish, there are multiple non-working solutions posted online, gentoo-forums had the correct solution.
I do have both hibernate and suspend working on all machines, took me more than one all-nighter to enable hibernation on the 760cd: the hibernation partition needs to be FAT32 (multiple online resources claim FAT16 should work too), if you have a 4GB hd like mine the partition needs to be at the start of the disk, it only works if you're working on battery power (I'd like to ask a few question to the engineer at IBM who made that up) and you need to have APM working in Linux. Oh, and you need IBM's DOS-tool to create the hibernation file on the partiton of course.
All machines have working wireless, I got a few 16-bit cards for postage from someone at another forum.
Only a few machines have usable batteries, that does include the 701c however.
I know people here could identify the machines from this pic. The 600's are are 600 and a 600x, there is a difference if you look at the air vent. The 570's are a 570 and a 570e, I don't think that is possible to tell from this pic.



My homebrew battery (clickable), good for 2.5 hours operation.
Howto here (scroll down).

All clickable for large pics:





Is this normal?:





The 760cd was free. To refuse would have been rude.















760cd hibernation in action:



Also for free, this nice looking 600. Came with 2x256MB low-density too!















It does have this 'hump' in the keyboard bezel though:

Sorry, just one more (a group pic) and done.



Only the T23 has a few cracks that have been fixed (hardly visible now, top of the lid and bottom case near the dvd-drive) all others have had broken parts replaced. Just two port covers missing (560x pcmcia and 240 floppy port). Well, the 570 and 570e have their io port covers missing, but almost noone has those.
Some of the keyboards are pretty worn (shine, letters worn off), but all still in good working order. For the rest, only very minor scuffs and scratches.

schnitzelcore:
First of all: cool pictures (I have a simmilar 701C setup, only with the MultiPort and external floppy)
about the crooked open/close mechanism cap in the TP701: over the last year I managed to assemble and sell 4 of the 701C/Cs models - all of them had the same problem. My guess is that as time passes this part simply wears off (remember that the open/close mechanism has a very stiff spring in it that folds the keyboard). Nothing to be alarmed about. BTW: I someday must show you my collection (currently I'm working on a 360 with no HDD - I'll try to force a Debian 2.2 to run off a PCMCIA CF adaptor).

Sorry for the OT.

Very very nice collection, and great pics. Enjoy your thinkpads!

Very cool. I'm gonna have to take a pic of all my TP's some day.

Also, my 701C has the same problem, plus one of the latches doesn't really latch anymore.

Also, no problems yet using the battery pack? I've got 2 701C NiCad battery packs, but neither of them really work well. I'd love to do what you did. Any issues with putting NiMH in the NiCad pack?

Rob

The only real problem with the battery pack is that it discarges pretty fast when left alone. If I haven't used it for more than a week, it will start by showing it's still almost 100% but run down in a few minutes. But I think that's a common problem with NiMh cells.
My pack was a NiMh pack before I modded it and the cells had the exact same voltage and capacity as the replacements I used. There's only one transistor in it though, nothing else besides the cells.

I would be willing to bet the hump is the video cable not being seated correctly under the plastic casing. The only way I've found to seat it correctly is to gently push it under with a popcicle stick as you carefully seat the keyboard.

Kind of a pain, but dooable.

Much nicer collection than mine!

Joe

Thanks for sharing the beautiful collection. You make me feel almost normal.

My puny collection wants to be like Ray's when it grows up!


Joe

joester wrote:I would be willing to bet the hump is the video cable not being seated correctly under the plastic casing. The only way I've found to seat it correctly is to gently push it under with a popcicle stick as you carefully seat the keyboard.

Kind of a pain, but dooable.

Much nicer collection than mine!

Joe

Well, it was the prime suspect for me too. But I doublechecked it and with mine it's definitely the small pcb under the bezel (with the connector for the keyboard on it) thats placed a millimeter or so too high. I know how unlikely this sounds, but I'm 100 percent sure everything is placed correctly and the hump is still there.
A few centimeters to the left of the cable is a screw that fastens the bezel onto the pcb. If you screw this tight it is still too high, and it is not above the cable.

I love the 760s ultrabay. I wish they still looked and worked that way.