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I notice I last visited here in 2007 and it is good to be back. I had several of the 730Ts a few years back and found them to be very challenging and interesting to play with. Saw an ebay auction for 4 of them and I bit. I actually still had a old heavy iron docking station in the basement for them. I recall that to get Windows 95 running properly on them with pen and pcmcia support you need a hacked pcmcia driver. I found some old forum pages from 1999/2000 from a guy in Germany with a site tagwerks.com. That is where I recall getting the drivers. Of course the link is long dead. Any chance anybody here has the pcmcia driver? I did find Pen Services 2.0 for Windows 95 at the HP site. HP still has Windows 95 drivers posted for the Compaq Concerto, another Windows 95 pen tablet machine.

I have also recently built up 2 701Cs just for the fun of it. I think they are going to be valuable some time in the near future and the 701Cs and 730Ts are most likely to be museum pieces just for their oddity.


Hwattys

Hi - I used to have a site up for the 730T but lost the content in a server crash. Since it was such a niche thing I relied on the Wayback Machine rather than restoring it laboriously. Backups? What backups?!

Have a look here.

Working PCMCIA drivers are available from here. I repackaged them from an IBM Japan product for the PC110, which had the same issues when booting off PCMCIA disks, and they worked a treat in the 730T.

[edit: Ooh - I also packed up drivers for Win95 to use the 730T in portrait mode. I'd forgotten that!]

Please PM me if you feel you have one 701C too many

U DA MAN!!!! This looks familiar and I had given up hope. I now have 4 730T's, 3 AC adapters 2 docking stations, 1 good and 3 bad pcmcia hard drives, 4 batteries and 4 pens. I have Windows 95 working with the Pen Services 2.0, and now I can get the darn thing on the internet (to the limits of IE 5.5) and network with other computers with a pcmcia NIC. Anybody who wants anything I have over and above one complete unit is welcome to it. Thanks again!!!

Happy to help

I have an old 730TE that someone gave me that I have never been able to get going as I don't have a AC adapter to go with it. Do either of you know the the FRU of the AC adapter and where to get one?

It is old school; the same adapter as used by the Thinkpad 350....very early. 15v 1.3 amp P/N 66G9523 FRU P/N 84G0505. I do have an extra in addition to a couple extra 730ts still. I have never had a 730TE and would love to have one if you decide to punt on getting it working. The hard part is the pcmcia hard drive and I do have a couple of those, too but what actually works better is a pcmcia CF adapter you can buy at any camera store and then a piece of Compact Flash memory.

Thanks hwattys. I have an old 390X laying around so hopefully that adapter will do the trick, but I will double check.

No that is different....16 volt and a smaller barrel.

Thanks again hwattys. Noticed that. I'll look out for one on eBay.