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Just curious what OS y'all are running on your vintage ThinkPads?

To answer my own question, DOS, Windows NT 4, OS/2 Warp 4, Debian Linux, and NetBSD. I think one also has a hard drive with Convergent 386-DOS.

PC110: IBM PC-DOS 6.1J
720: IBM PC-DOS 3.3, 5.01, 6.1
750Cs: IBM AIX/PS2 1.3
820: IBM AIX 4.2.1
PC110: MS Windows 3.1J
360P/PE: MS Windows for Pen 1.3 (IBM)
701: MS Windows 3.11
240: Win98SE
770X: 2000
365CSD: SCO OpenServer 5.0.5
365ED: Win95 Russian

That depends on what you mean by vintage.
600: 2000 xp all on different drives, Wme on its original hdd
390X: 98/2000/xp multi boot (Original hdd is failing)
T22: W2k and W7 (pretty unusable) on different hdd
T23, A30p, A31p, T42: W7
T43: W7 + W10 on different hdd

Well, most of my old systems I justify keeping by being able to run retro DOS or Windows games on - so they'll all run some flavor of Windows in that regard. The 701c I have the factory 3.11/OS2 install on now, but I also have a Windows 95 image I made for it . The 755c I have 95 on (have the 3.11 image saved as well), then the 365XD I put 98 on. Not sure what I'll load on the just-acquired 380D - Maybe 95 but probably 98... we'll see. I'm thinking I'll put 3.11 back on the 755c and load 95 on the 365XD - then put 98 on the 380D. Decisions, decisions...

The TransNote runs the factory 2000 install. The two A22ms have 98 and XP. The X2*s will have 2000 or XP - whatever they're stickered for. The T42p and T43 also have factory XP installs. The X41T and everything else runs 7.

755C: DOS 6.22/Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 755CX: DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 (on SSD)
765D: Windows 98SE, 760XD: Windows 95 OSR2
560Z: Windows 2000, 560E: Windows 95 (OSR2 I think)
380Z: Windows ME, 380ED: Dual Boot DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11, Windows NT 4.0
570E: Windows 2000 (Japanese)
600E: Nothing (for now), 600X: Windows 2000
A31p: Windows 7, A31: Windows XP
T23 #1: Windows 98SE (on SSD!), T23 #2: Windows XP (Japanese)
T30: Windows XP
T42: Triple Boot Windows ME, 2000, 7 (all on 120GB SSD)
T43 #1: Windows XP, T43 #2: Windows XP (Russian), T43 #3: Windows XP (Chinese Trad)
Z60m: Windows 2000 (on SSD)
T60 #1: Currently nothing, T60 #2: Windows Vista (German), T60 #3: Windows 7 (Russian), T60 #4: Windows 7 (Chinese Trad)
T61 15.4 #1: Windows 7 (SSD), T61 15.4 #2: Nothing right now, T61 4:3 #1: Windows 7 (SSD), T61 4:3 #2: Windows 7 (Japanese, SSD)

600X: Windows 2000
A31p: Windows 2000
X41: Xubuntu 16.04

kfzhu1229 wrote:That depends on what you mean by vintage.
600: 2000 xp all on different drives, Wme on its original hdd
390X: 98/2000/xp multi boot (Original hdd is failing)
T22: W2k and W7 (pretty unusable) on different hdd
T23, A30p, A31p, T42: W7
T43: W7 + W10 on different hdd

I should clarify - vintage being anything older than the 770, but I suppose we can include the 560 and 600, since they were still released before the turn of the century.

T2x and T4x, at least in my opinion, wouldn't be considered vintage (except maybe for the T series as a whole).

I run mostly Windows 98, 95 on the oldest machines. The P3 and up have XP either standalone or dual-booting with 98. I once tried OS/2 on a 600E and could never get the installation to work. I've lso tried OpenSTEP/Mach but that had issues with APM. The 701c was received with a broken OS/2 installation and I've yet to obtain a floppy drive to fix it.

goldeneagle wrote:T2x and T4x, at least in my opinion, wouldn't be considered vintage (except maybe for the T series as a whole).

Well I agree with you for that. However out of the T2x machines only T23 has the power to run Windows 7 and none of them can run the latest software even in Windows 7 because nowadays programs drop support for SSE2 incapable processors (and yet they are still sluggish and some are even slower than the older versions that do not utilise SSE2)

In sig, but in case it changes: Windows 95 on 701. Still the original install; I intend to either reinstall 95 or use 98kite; though appearantly the sound in the 701 causes problems with 98lite, of all the things. (!)

I am either running just XP or dual booting Debian and XP on my older thinkpads. I no longer have my 760EL which was the last one I ran an older OS (DOS/95/Warp) on. I liked the 760 for running Warp a lot. I have some hardware that is XP only hence XP being on most of my machines, and dual boot with Debian so I have a more tolerable and secure OS for going online.

T60: Ubuntu Mint 16.10
T61: Ubuntu Mint 16.10
X1C(1) : Ubuntu Mint 16.10
X1C(2) : Ubuntu GoBang 16.04 ( boots in 4 seconds )
Startup finished in 2.946s (kernel) + 991ms (userspace) = 3.938s

T420: Windows 7

HI,

I have a 760XD. I haven't used it in years.

I have 2 HDDs for it. On one I have Windows 98SE. On the other I have Windows 2000 Pro.

I put a Cisco 340 wireless pcmcia card in it the other day, and was amazed at how quick Internet explorer (IE5 I think) is. Has trouble displaying some pages, but still useable.

Win XP or Linux Mint.

I would say anything before the Core processors is vintage. But that's just an opinion.

As to the main point, Slackware and Debian.



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A vintage Win7 Pro 64-bit running on X1 Carbon Generation 4

(For the record, we had to shoehorn Win7 64bit onto this X1C-4 machine.
Apparently the 2nd-half 2016 models of X1C-4 had fingerprint readers which had no Win7 drivers available).
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=121195