Thinkpads Forum

So I got my hands on one of the elusive Japan-Only ThinkPad 235, aka the Ricoh NP-40 or RIOS Clavius...

http://digital.hmx.net/02contents/pc/i3 ... p40j.shtml
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:235

Unfortunately it's been had a few different owners, and somewhere down the line the batteries went missing. I can see from the description that it uses two camcorder batteries, but no idea what size/where to source these from.

As it was marketed under a few different names I was able to find some batteries by searching for it under the Hitachi VisionBook Traveler name, but as I don't even have the machine in my hands yet I can't look and see whether this would be a suitable replacement: http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-VisionBoo ... B0007SRHMY

Is there any chance anyone here has one of these around, or perhaps knows of a more obscure website where I could get more info on said camcorder batteries? It's a very neat little machine despite being low powered and I would like be able to make it portable again.

90210babe wrote:So I got my hands on one of the elusive Japan-Only ThinkPad 235, aka the Ricoh NP-40 or RIOS Clavius...

Is there any chance anyone here has one of these around, or perhaps knows of a more obscure website where I could get more info on said camcorder batteries? It's a very neat little machine despite being low powered and I would like be able to make it portable again.

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I'm 99% certain the PC110 and the TP235 use the same camcorder battery (but my examples are in another building at the mo.) See here for a page from an "obscure website" regarding commonly available alternatives (scroll down to 'Camcorder Batteries'):

http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/battery.htm

Also some history of the IBM-Ricoh "RIOS" partnership that begat several interesting small machines is here:

http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/history.htm

Clavius is the successor to Chandra, which was the successor to Monolith, which was the successor to Monolith(?!) ...