On Saturday, March 14, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Jason D. wrote:

Two situations:
1. Perfect condition; working 2 batteries, 120mb, 16mb, 486SLC2 50
(IBM CPU type) and power brick, all the manual books, ibm disks.
TFT display is asolutely perfect, maybe 1 or 2 bad pixel? And small
bag of trackpoint heads in black and red)
2. Ditto on everything for number 1 except for few plastic parts like
hinge covers, 2nd serial port/modem bay cover, memory module cover and
right side latch button (the latch and spring are fine) are missing.
Give a estimate on either situations.
Reason: I just spent 200 CDN both to aquire it and replace the
keyboard frame and now debating either keep it as is or upgrade the
HD, 500mb at cost of @400 CDN and use it or sell it as is for other
guys for parts or use it as is with 120mb and use the $ to find a
proper IBM thinkpad with IDE instead of that oddball MCA thinkpad like
that 700C is. But! that $400 CDN looks too much to ask to get 500mb
on that thing or otherwise.
I have choice of 340mb Hitachi and 514mb Daytona Quantum 2.5" drives
So I could get some assistance of extra $ from selling of this 700C to
fund a better decent used Thinkpad with TFT, 486dx2 66 3.3v and 16mb
with room to add another ram, flexiable choice of 2.5" IDE hd's I can
put in. Please recommand a good Thinkpad model and some idea of usual
prices. Liked how the 700C performed in playing doom, older motion
based games like Space quest 4 and 5 and windows use.
Only thing I wanted is built in floppy or external floppy, PCMCIA so
less chances of failures like with that cdroms and such that add bulk
and avoids expense.
Now, please see what I'm going at and keep contiune to read this so
far...
The motivation for this first 700C was to replace this compaq but now considering these previous alteratives so please spill your beans here
and hear yours comments and suggestions and at first did not know that nonstandard hd existed in that 700C when I first aquired it.
I have a old slow compaq LTE 386s/20 that is getting on my nerves by
it's aging lamps, slow CPU and wacky ram type, battery that works but
takes 3 days to fully charge it, the power brick is ok because at tech service did try their other power brick which did not solve that dead
fast charge mode. Lamps age is getting noticeable and has to raise
the brightness level appox 20% from lower bottom brightness.
I proudly owned that for 4+ years and added number of hacks and
repairs to keep it going but things is getting out of hand to my
abilities.
Thanks!
My comments:
I vetoed Toshiba and Compaq for these recent tech support and software support screws ups and assured long term support on either is called
into question and that 700C in area of tech support is why this recent
shift to this IBM thinkpad series after this experience with that
repair work and availabity parts for them is impressively.
Jason D.

Are you selling it?

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