Re: New toys in the house
- From: Jim Shorney <jshorney@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:59:16 -0500
shingouz wrote:
Oooo... an Aero! Cute things and they can do all kinds of neat stuff with the
proper software. If you have the full 20MB of ram in it, you really need to up
the BIOS to the latest version, the SP1992 IIRC. Without the latest BIOS, the
computer can see the full amount of ram only sporadically.
It's only got the base RAM on the system board, 4 meg IIRC. I didn't get the floppy drive with it, so patches and updates are on the back burner until I get the ambition to hook up a null modem cable and do the serial port thing. Floppy drives are a bit pricey on ePay, so I'm holding off on that. I'm thinking it will make a nice little portable APRS digipeater box (radio talk again). The battery is toast, as expected. I did get the automotive adapter with it, so if it won't run from 12 volts natively (many laptops actually will if you aren't concerned about charging a battery) I can use that.
For more information you might want to consult this place as a beginning:
Already prowled the net and found some good info. Thanks for the links.
I know I have the HMM for the Aero here somewhere as a PDF but finding it can
take a week or two.
That would be handy. No hurry, though.
And before I forget, replace the BIOS battery right now
before you use the laptop again, it has a habit of hosing the BIOS if the
battery voltage goes too low.
I will take that under advisement. Already did that on the 1200t, same battery. it was very dead.
If the main battery is dead as I suspect it is, remove it and run the
box straight off the power brick and under no circumstances use a "replacement"
power supply on the damn thing.
I can make a power supply for virtually anything, often better than original. But I did get the standard brick with it as well, so no worries there.
The other toys arrived Monday - four Thinkpad 760 series:
760EL, 56M RAM, HD blank (Norton recovered a Win98 load)
760CD, 40M RAM, HD blank (Norton couldn't find a DOS partition, further investigation is required)
760XD (XGA), beat up, broken case, no extra RAM, powers up to a white screen but acts like it's trying to boot. HD blank (Norton recovered a NTWS 4 SP6 FAT load. Applied my special tools disk, whacked the Admin password, "I'm in!")
760XD (XGA), 64M RAM (now at 80, soon 104), functional Win98 load. The NTWS hard drive is in it now. Base drivers installed, but none of the fancy stuff. This is the nice one. Keyboard is worn, as is typical of this vintage of 760s. I'm anxious to play with the video capture stuff in this one, after I figure out what to do for cables. Snarfing files from a PCCBBS mirror at this moment.
Also got two AC power bricks and four bad batteries. Only two floppy drives in the lot, and no CD drive, but I have a CD drive in my 760E. I need to make a backup image of my 20G drive with 98se/Linux in the 760E, then I'll drop it into the XD and see how Linux runs. I'm not really looking forward to rejiggering X11 for the XGA display, but it should be worth the trouble if I can get it to work right.
Fun stuff....
-Jim (this is conflicting with my radio time...)
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