Just picked up a $15.00 thinkpad

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SaberX · #1 Post by **SaberX** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:38 pm

It's not much but it's all there.
Thinkpad 365XD 2625-FE9
I cant find much onto it.I belive it's a P-133Mhz.It has 40 megs ram and a 1.3 gig hard drive.
Has cd-rom and external floppy.Even came with a ac power adapter.
Not the best laptop but not bad for $15.00.
The system looks just like new,about a 9 out of 10.
I'll fool around with it for a while than maybe put it up for someone else in the for sale forum.

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:42 pm

Congratulations! The AC adapter alone is worth $15.

#3 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:53 pm

And probably the external floppy drive too! I paid $11 for one of those drives almost two months ago when looking at a 365XD (2625-6R3). The dual-scan screen at 256 colors was quaint and using Windows 95 after all these years was fun.

#4 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:35 pm

Nice find. I'm sure that computer would fly with Windows 95 and Office '97.

SaberX · #5 Post by **SaberX** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:43 pm

It has Win98 on it and run's OK now.
I just took the small hard drive out and try to put it in the 570E i now have back from my sister.
It fit in the system but came up with a lock on the hard drive.From just after the IBM screen.Befor windows starts up.
Now if i put it back into the 365XD system it boots up to Win98 fine.
Strange.

pianowizard · #6 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:02 pm

SaberX wrote:I just took the small hard drive out and try to put it in the 570E i now have back from my sister.

I bet the 365XD looks disgusting sitting right next to the 570E, the ugliest and the prettiest Thinkpads I've seen, respectively.

Tholek · #7 Post by **Tholek** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:58 pm

Win98SE was so nice to run on my old 760XD. I was told I might have gotten 2000 on that 166Mhz with a little work, but never tried.

Likewise, it might be worth it for you to bump up that RAM...

Windows 2000 Professional Minimum System Requirements:
133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU.
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum; more memory generally improves responsiveness [4 gigabytes (GB) RAM maximum.]
2 GB hard disk with a minimum of 650 MB of free space. (Additional free hard disk space is required if you are installing over a network.)

gearguy · #8 Post by **gearguy** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:04 am

rkawakami wrote:And probably the external floppy drive too! I paid $11 for one of those drives almost two months ago when looking at a 365XD (2625-6R3). The dual-scan screen at 256 colors was quaint and using Windows 95 after all these years was fun.

Windows 95 after all these years is just plain dangerous let alone fun lol

Windows 2000 on "Best performence" settings runs pretty nice on a system quite a bit under the min spec requirements, you can actually get Windows XP showhorned onto a 760 if you try hard enough, but of course you need a bigger hard drive and have to install it using another computer first. And then afterwards t crawls at about 0.3mph

leoblob · #9 Post by **leoblob** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:39 pm

I think my i1452 is much uglier than my 365x. In fact, I'd say the 365x just has a dull and 'clunky' look, whereas the i1452 is actively ugly.

Tholek · #10 Post by **Tholek** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:32 pm

gearguy wrote:Windows 2000 on "Best performence" settings runs pretty nice on a system quite a bit under the min spec requirements, you can actually get Windows XP showhorned onto a 760 if you try hard enough, but of course you need a bigger hard drive and have to install it using another computer first. And then afterwards t crawls at about 0.3mph

I was once told that as well. "Stripped down" were the words used to describe XP on a 760. Didn't seem like much fun at all.

Eventually I just cannibalized the drive for an external USB case. When I have the time I plan on reassembling one of my 760s again, though.

Just picked up a $15.00 thinkpad

Just picked up a $15.00 thinkpad

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