[Thinkpad] FS: TP 760XL with everything (USB 2.0, wireless, etc.)

I offered this a while ago on the forum at Thinkpads.com but got no takers,
so I thought I'd offer it here.

More or less in order to see whether it could be done, I put together a kind
of ultimate ThinkPad 760XL that will be better off with someone who can make
more real use of it. (I've already got another 760XL working here, and don't
need two.)

The 760XL is in really excellent condition, with a total of 88MB RAM and a
1.2 GB hard disk, with Windows 98 SE installed, together with all Win98
updates, including the superb "unofficial service pack" described here:

http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

(This "unofficial service pack" makes 98 look like Windows 2000, but on the
unit I'm offering, the originals of explorer.exe and shell32.dll are on the
disk so you can get back the true 98SE look. Also, the version of this
"unofficial service pack" installed on the machine is older than the one
currently posted, so you may want to apply the latest version - but it all
already works well, so why bother?) There are probably some Windows-Update
security updates that have been released since I put this together in
mid-2004, but they're easy to apply.

Also, an internal 8x CD-ROM and a internal floppy, complete with the bracket
that fills up the opening left when you remove the CD-ROM.

Also a correct AC power supply and three-prong cord. (It also comes with a
completely dead battery, which I'll include if you want it, but ONLY if you
want it. It really, really won't take a charge.)

Also the original printed user's manual.

Also a set of four PC Cards (drivers for all of them already installed): a
3COM Ethernet card (with dongle), a Zoom V92 modem (with dongle), a Senao
802.11b wireless card, and a more-or-less generic two-port USB 2.0 card (it
says Stellent on it). Everything works correctly, although if you remove the
USB card while Windows is running, you usually can't get the system to
recognize another PC Card card in the same slot until after you reboot.

Also installed: Acrobat Reader 4.0 and legal copies of Word 97 and Excel 97.

Oh, yes, I'll also throw in a brand-new replacement keyboard to use if you
spill coffe on the current one.

The 88MB RAM is made up of the 8MB onboard RAM, one 64MB module, and one
16MB module. You can increase the total to 104 MB by replacing the 16MB
module with a 32MB module, but I doubt this will make much difference with
Windows 98. (With 104MB RAM, however, you can run Windows 2000 reasonably
well on this machine.)

The worst part of this setup was getting the USB 2.0 card to work properly,
but it all finally worked after I moved USB from IRQ 10 to IRQ 4. The card
works beautifully with all the USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices I have here, thanks
to the generic drivers that come with the Unofficial Win98 SE Service Pack
(described above)

I think a fair price for all of this stuff is somewhere in the low three
figures ($1xx) including shipping (US addresses only, please), and if
anyone's interested (anyone who wants to use it, not just resell it), please
get in touch privately at

emendelson -atsign- compuserve -dot- com

Edward Mendelson

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Received on Sun Jan 2 14:48:09 2005