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William R. Walsh
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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:07 am Post subject: Thinkpad 730T OS and supporting files... |
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In the collection of things that Louis sent me back to the grand old town of
Farmer City with is a Thinkpad 730T. I've gotten far enough to know that
both batteries are in very good shape, and that the machine will start up.
What it doesn't have is an OS.
I think I could simply pull the internal hard disk and install DOS if I
don't turn up a compatible external floppy drive. But what would I do after
that? I think I'd need some kind of supporting software to enable input via
the pen.
Anyone?
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Barovelli
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 730T OS and supporting files... |
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"William R. Walsh"
<newsgroups1@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote:
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In the collection of things that Louis sent me back to the grand old town of
Farmer City with is a Thinkpad 730T. I've gotten far enough to know that
both batteries are in very good shape, and that the machine will start up.
What it doesn't have is an OS.
I think I could simply pull the internal hard disk and install DOS if I
don't turn up a compatible external floppy drive. But what would I do after
that? I think I'd need some kind of supporting software to enable input via
the pen.
Anyone?
http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/2524/2524.html
William
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Pen services for Windows. I had it on a 730 that I unloaded along with
a bevy of PCMCIA drives, batteries etc.
I'm looking for it again - I've been suckered into accepting a
Dauphin DTR1 (supposedly made by IBM) and am trying to revive it to
full functionality. |
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Ken Stine
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 730T OS and supporting files... |
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William R. Walsh wrote:
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In the collection of things that Louis sent me back to the grand old town of
Farmer City with is a Thinkpad 730T. I've gotten far enough to know that
both batteries are in very good shape, and that the machine will start up.
What it doesn't have is an OS.
I think I could simply pull the internal hard disk and install DOS if I
don't turn up a compatible external floppy drive. But what would I do after
that? I think I'd need some kind of supporting software to enable input via
the pen.
Anyone?
http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/2524/2524.html
William
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I have Win 95 with Pen running on my 730T -- fortunately it came already
loaded on the hard drive.
You could take the PC card hard drive out, and pop it into a laptop to
copy files onto it. But it would be hard to run an install without a
keyboard, which for the 730T you would need the docking port for.
I could try to see if I could xcopy the contents of my hard drive to a
CD or something. The trick would be making the target disk bootable.
Ah, another project for the weekend!
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David L. Beem
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 730T OS and supporting files... |
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hI William,
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I think I could simply pull the internal hard disk and install DOS if I
don't turn up a compatible external floppy drive. But what would I do
after that? I think I'd need some kind of supporting software to enable
input via the pen.
For the external floppy drive you still will need a dock (or the |
smaller port replicator). One of the things I do like about the big dock
with the Kodak printer is that it does have a keyboard port (the port
replicator does not - I don't know if the connection allows the ThinkPad
keyboard/mouse splitter cord). As I remember, I was looking at the
compatibility with the TP750-series docks (which I think inverts the dock
connector to make it a little harder). |
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