2 IBM PS/2s, DC/MD area

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Jan 17 18:25:12 2002

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

> > Microchannel, if not all) and the Thinkpad Power Seried 830.
>
> They made an 830? I thought they had the N40 (which I don't know anything
> about), the 820, 850, and 860.

There's a lot more than that. There's the L40SX, N51SX, CL57SX, P70, P75,
700, 820, 830, 850, and 860.

> I've got a "Woodfield" (type 6020, pre-GA of the 850) which is so
> painfully slow under AIX 4.1.4 as to be unusable. It also suffers from a
> general lack of integration testing.

Want to get rid of it?

> I was actually so curious as to whether this was inidicative of the rest
> of the ThinkPad Power Series line that I spent MORE money on an 850 (type
> 6042). To my delight, the 850 works much better... to the point that I
> could actually use it to do real work. The left trackpoint button is worn
> out though.
>
> Before I start trying to fix it, does anybody have any experience with
> repairing anything like this? Should I just be looking at replacing the
> whole keyboard?

It's ridiculously easy to do. Just replace the button.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 18:25:12 GMT