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Has anybody managed to get a 701C to use a solid-state device (IDE SSD, FlashCard on an adapter etc) to boot, say, Windows95? I have only failures so far.

Silent computing (doesn't have a fan, so no possibility of fan noise) of a basic nature (say document editing) is a possible reason to still use a 701C in 2012.

i don't think there is any way to get an SSD working IN a 701C..
there MIGHT be a PCMCIA adapter of some sort that would support the early PCMCIA on the 701C and an SSD..

among the 701C's in my collection several are running win95..

at one point some years ago (10 years ago?) i had a 701C with the docking bar working as a print server with three parallel printers running on it..
under win95 and maybe win98 at that time..

BillMorrow wrote:i don't think there is any way to get an SSD working IN a 701C..
there MIGHT be a PCMCIA adapter of some sort that would support the early PCMCIA on the 701C and an SSD..

AFAIR, the 701C cannot boot from PCMCIA, so one would still be left with a noisy conventional HD in the HD bay.

Pity that an 8 GB slc IDE SSD costs around $100 and then there's no way to get it working on one of the few computers for which 8 GB of HD space represents a sweet spot. I did get the same SSD to work in an X32, but who cares to have a mere 8 GB HD in a much more capable machine? Just (be-) musing.

JonathanBe wrote:Pity that an 8 GB slc IDE SSD costs around $100 and then there's no way to get it working on one of the few computers for which 8 GB of HD space represents a sweet spot. I did get the same SSD to work in an X32, but who cares to have a mere 8 GB HD in a much more capable machine? Just (be-) musing.

i THINK the max HDD a 701 can support is 6gig.. i had many 2gig working in 701's and i think i have a 6gig IDE PATA HDD around here i was saving for a 701..
pity i have little enthusiasm for setting up a max'ed out 701C with the 133 mhz system board and 72 meg of memory..

The size limit of a 701 is at 8GB. Larger HDDs will be shown with wrong size in BIOS but Windows recognizes it well. The boot partition should not exceed 8GB.

If formatted with FAT32, you additionally need a FAT16-partition a little bit larger, than memory size og the notebook for hibernation-function.

JonathanBe wrote: AFAIR, the 701C cannot boot from PCMCIA, so one would still be left with a noisy conventional HD in the HD bay........

wait a minute.. as my poor memory recall flashes, IBM DID have a PCMCIA adapter to a CD drive for the 701.. pretty sure of this..

edit: thinking more of this it was restricted to an IBM CD drive and a couple of other brand CD drives..

i would use a cf card to pata adapter. Cf cards come in a variety of sizes, and I don't think they probably wont bottleneck the host adapter. If you want to keep the original partition, go into windows xp with a laptop ide adapter and clone the drive with a cardreader.