My Thinkpad 240

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#1 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:08 pm

This is my new acquisition. An oldtimer! Didn't have the time yet to clean it, but the pictures hide the dirt

Enjoy!

The good 'ol DOS times...

*** SIZE COMPARISON ***

... with big sister Z61m...

... with X41T in tablet mode...

... and with T60 14"

I was too lazy to pick up the rest of my collection. Maybe more pics will arrive later...

#2 Post by **ZaZ** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:34 pm

Nice machine. It looks new. Almost like it was kept in a museum or something.

#3 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:12 am

FredGarvin wrote:It looks new.

The pictures were done without flash on purpose, to hide the dirt

The comparison photos were shot after I cleaned it. All in all it's in good state, there's a broken part at the back, but that's it.

josepzin · #4 Post by **josepzin** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:25 pm

240 on on the International Space Station > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TORU_ ... system.jpg

#5 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:59 pm

Nah! Those are not 240's

josepzin · #6 Post by **josepzin** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:02 pm

Tasurinchi wrote:Nah! Those are not 240's

No??

That IBM notebooks are all equals

#7 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:29 am

josepzin wrote:That IBM notebooks are all equals

This is a Thinkpad Forum! You could get expelled with statements like that

josepzin · #8 Post by **josepzin** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:34 am

hahhaha!!

There are too models!

zern · #9 Post by **zern** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:22 am

Sweeet!

Which ultralight from the past would you have - a 240 or a 560?

granular · #10 Post by **granular** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:24 pm

#11 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:19 pm

I haven't typed so much yet, but the keyboard quality is great. Only "complain" is that there no dedicated keys for Home, End, PgUp & PgDn, you have to press the Fn key and use the arrow keys for that.

Unfortunately I haven't had the time to play around with it

, after cleaning I put the little lady in the drawer, I have to find some time to re-install Win98, and I need to check if I still have a box of old 3.5" disks around.

Cheers

pianowizard · #12 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:30 pm

granular wrote:Nice aquisition! How does typing on the 240 feel compared to X41t?

I had both. The X40's and X41t's keyboards are larger, and so it's easier to type on them than on the 240's.

Tasurinchi wrote:I have to find some time to re-install Win98, and I need to check if I still have a box of old 3.5" disks around.

The 400MHz 240 runs Windows 2000 well.

#13 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:01 pm

pianowizard wrote:The 400MHz 240 runs Windows 2000 well

I've read that here in this forum, but I'm probably going to use the 240 as a kind of retro-game platform. I'm sure I have some old Lucasart games CDs/Disks somewhere. It would be even interesting to see if I could install Win3.1 just for the sake of testing

Temetka · #14 Post by **Temetka** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:56 am

Nice little 240 you got there. I've always wanted one of those. Plenty of power for some retro stuff.

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