My newest 600E
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:12 am
I'm cursed! I can't pass up a good deal on eBay 
. After spending many months in the T23 world, I've returned to the 600 series one more time:
366Mhz 600E (for $30 shipped!)
Ran across this system a couple of days ago. I figured that not too many people would find it because it was advertised as a "690E". I also took a chance that it had a simple problem; I lucked out. The system was not locked but merely suffers from a broken trackpoint (8611 boot error). Disabling the trackpoint from within BIOS, the system appears to boot from both floppy and CDROM without any problems. Hopefully in a couple of days I can get around to swapping/cloning my very first Thinkpad (the 600E in my .sig) and making sure this new 600E can boot from a hard drive. The LCD has a pinkish tint to it when first activated but at least it turns on! My first 600E still has the delayed turn-on of the backlight and a dead column of pixels, which is the main reason why I bought this one. I wanted a system that I could compare with mine to see if I could track down the problem or to use as spare parts.
The laptop came almost entirely stripped down. It has a CDROM drive and hard drive caddy, but no hard drive, floppy, power supply or memory modules. Just recently I sold off all of the PC66/PC100 modules I had around for ages; didn't think I'd need them anymore! I went through my inventory of loose PC133 modules before I found one that works in the 600E. It now has a 128MB low-density PC133 CL3 Infineon module that appears to run just fine with the on-board 32MB.
So, I guess maybe I have to go back to fishing at the eBay pond and see if I can snag a cheap 600E/X keyboard. Poked around there tonight, but most of them cost as much as, if not MORE than the $30 I spent on the laptop! Hopefully I can also put a 400Mhz processor in there without too much fiddling around and make it a clone of my original 600E.
. After spending many months in the T23 world, I've returned to the 600 series one more time:366Mhz 600E (for $30 shipped!)
Ran across this system a couple of days ago. I figured that not too many people would find it because it was advertised as a "690E". I also took a chance that it had a simple problem; I lucked out. The system was not locked but merely suffers from a broken trackpoint (8611 boot error). Disabling the trackpoint from within BIOS, the system appears to boot from both floppy and CDROM without any problems. Hopefully in a couple of days I can get around to swapping/cloning my very first Thinkpad (the 600E in my .sig) and making sure this new 600E can boot from a hard drive. The LCD has a pinkish tint to it when first activated but at least it turns on! My first 600E still has the delayed turn-on of the backlight and a dead column of pixels, which is the main reason why I bought this one. I wanted a system that I could compare with mine to see if I could track down the problem or to use as spare parts.
The laptop came almost entirely stripped down. It has a CDROM drive and hard drive caddy, but no hard drive, floppy, power supply or memory modules. Just recently I sold off all of the PC66/PC100 modules I had around for ages; didn't think I'd need them anymore! I went through my inventory of loose PC133 modules before I found one that works in the 600E. It now has a 128MB low-density PC133 CL3 Infineon module that appears to run just fine with the on-board 32MB.
So, I guess maybe I have to go back to fishing at the eBay pond and see if I can snag a cheap 600E/X keyboard. Poked around there tonight, but most of them cost as much as, if not MORE than the $30 I spent on the laptop! Hopefully I can also put a 400Mhz processor in there without too much fiddling around and make it a clone of my original 600E.
