Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:21:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen F. Combs" <combssf-mobile@salem.ge.com> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960418221801.481A-100000@combssflt.salem.ge.com> In-Reply-To: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu>
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William, I'm sending you this from a Thinkpad 755CSE (not the same as you mention, but it works quite well). Doesn't have X yet and haven't gotten the MWave modem to work, but I've also got a Megaherts PCMCIA modem which I am using to connect to the net with (as I write this message). I'm using an ALPA package which provides PCMCIA support. Don't know what is in a 701 but the 755CSE is quite good (100MHZ DX4, 540MB IDE disk, and I've currently got 24MB of ram!). ---- Stephen F. Combs Internet: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM GE DS&TC Voice: 540.387.8828 Network Services Home: CombsSF-Home@Salem.GE.COM 1501 Roanoke Blvd FAX: 540.387.7106 Salem, VA 24153 LapTop: CombsSF-Mobile@Salem.GE.COM On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, William Bulley wrote: > We are considering an IBM ThinkPad 701 for FreeBSD. > > I don't know what it has on the inside (the store clerk > frowns on my taking laptops apart in his showroom...) :-) > > This puppy is 75MHz 486 so is kinda slow, but will the > other stuff work? For example: > > 1) modem uses DSP (?) > > 2) disk is not IDE (MicroChannel?) > > 3) UART chip (??) > > 4) other stuff like the red button mouse (just a PS/2 mouse?) > > Is this gonna work or cause me lots of headaches? Thanks! > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer > Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu > 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 > Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185 >
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