An R51 Thank You

[jronald]

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=102802

With a little bit of generosity from a couple of guys, I am 1 keyboard away from building 4 R51's for donation. With the junk I already had, the junk they donated and $100.00 I was able to put together 4 machines: 40 gig HDD, at least 1.5 gig memory, G wireless, XP, Office, Avast and 1 hour batteries. Not too shabby. Not perfect machines by any stretch....but perfectly usable machines.

By the way, after a long line of T30/R40....the R51 is by far the biggest PITA to reassembly correctly!

Thanks
Ron

[thePCxp]

That's great to hear Ron, good luck with that .

I still have my R51, which I got back in 2004 and was my main computer from 2004-2008. I used it during my high school years ('04-'08) and never had any problems with it (with the exception of the Loose GPU issue, but that's another story). I dropped it quite a few times (at school) and always worked with no issues. Whomever receives these R51's will enjoy them. I think what you're doing is great.

[wackyD]

Good work!

It is nice knowing that you are not only donating something needed, but you are giving something that is of sufficient quality to fill the need for a sustained time.

I've gotten some great deals on a few T60's that are helping to run a mission in Honduras I have worked with for some time. It is hard to appreciate the difference good technology can make until you struggle through with junk for a while.


Again, way to go Ron. I missed your post as well, but don't currently have a way to confirm if any of my T4/R4 era stuff is still working. And no keyboard of that era either - though I have an A22 one lying around, should a need arise. And an abundance of Toshiba Tecra M2/M3/M5 parts should that come up.

Daniel