IBM ThinkPad A30 and A31 with LS-240 drives

[@vwestlife]

*Correction:* The Fujitsu MHK2120AT drive shown in the Device Manager is actually the hard drive, not the LS240 drive.

[@kingsknightuk]

been using laptops for over 20 years now and i still believe the older think pads have the best keyboard ever made!

[@JessicaFEREM]

Dell used to put Floppy drives in their old latitudes, they were really cool because they were also had a USB on them that worked with any computer, and the way the laptop was designed, you could hotswap between a floppy drive, a DVD rom drive, and even an extra battery. great thinking old dell

[@olds8881]

Bought my nephew a Lenovo Thinkpad L-430. It has a 14 inch screen, 3rd generation Intel I5-processor, and a 120 GB Kingston SSD. I'm impressed with the solid build quality, and it's very fast.

[@solonset1636]

God damn for a laptop, that speaker's quality is quite amazing.

[@lolman123401]

TeraArray You never heard a Toshiba laptop holy shit. they're insane

[@IvanBoskovic808]

Yeah Toshiba used Harman Kardon speakers in some Satellite and Tecra models and they are quite good.....Also worth mentioning is Compaq Armada E500 .

[@alexvar10]

Ivan Boskovic Compaq Armada E500... Oh yes, probably the best (and louder) speakers I've ever heard from a laptop! ☺

[@HarisLinuxOSprofile]

Toshiba A300 with harman kardon speakers sounded truly amazing, nothing compared to todays shity sound

[@BilisNegra]

+Haris PC Not that simple as yesterday vs today, dude. Had an Acer Aspire 5630 (bought in 2007, but actually a 2006 design) which had awful speakers, while my 2011 HP laptop -admittedly somewhat old as well- sounds better. I hardly ever use the built in speakers in a laptop anyway.

[@ZamiZoggt]

I have a A31p with a 1600x1200 Flex IPS Screen. Still a amazing retro machine! :)

[@thegeforce6625]

Lucky

[@jwilliams5857]

I have an A22p with the same screen.

[@EgoShredder]

This video is pure geek heaven for me, especially as I am a Thinkpad owner and fan. :-)

[@wildbill23c]

I like the Thinkpads. So much so I have a small collection of them now HAHA....T400, T430, X201, X220T. Wouldn't mind getting 1 of each T and X series.

[@BilisNegra]

17:26 Wifi was SO new when these machines came up! An internal adapter for these must have been quite a costly option. You typically went wireless via PCMCIA cards with machines that old.

[@chrysanth.5700]

I use the T43 - last one IBM had their hands in. While at times it can be slow and the battery isn't too great, there is something to be said by the fact that I can still get my day-to-day tasks done with this old machine. And I only paid $35 for it. Talk about a steal.

[@deathsmileyinc]

15:35 i didnt know about this clean version with a plane to ibiza instead of a pill in ibiza.

[@Jingyuanonchrismas]

Is it just me that the speakers of these old thinkpads sounds much better than the newer ones...

[@anuranansaha7162]

This model was the absolute masterpiece of IBM. ThinkPad a lappy with a massive upgradibility

[@semco72057]

I would have felt blessed to have found two discarded units like those and they can be upgraded some and a new OS installed in them, although you could not go beyond Windows XP, or install several versions of OS/2 on them.

[@Mayban36]

Im looking for an old thinkpad through ebay but here in Europe seems to not be very common and delivery+taxes from USA... so expensive.

[@Lukeno52]

Plenty of them in the UK!

[@Mayban36]

+Justin Urhead I want a Thinkpad, not an generic chinese laptop.

[@yangxiaolong8657]

Try more of the local sites, not ebay. For example, I'm from Croatia and I used njuskalo .hr to get an IBM branded thinkpad T61, with the 16:10 1680x1050 display, a 2.5ghz core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram and an nvidia quadro 140m dedicated graphics card + adapter and dock for 115$, which I know is a lot probably by US standards but over here its quite a steal

[@spectrHz]

If you come across some, avoid the T41. It is one of the thinkpads that had some serious design flaws, The magnesium frame flexes the motherboard when you pick it up, and over time it can break the solder joints on parts of the motherboard. I had a few t41s die because the graphics controller chip broke off the motherboard.

[@Mayban36]

In all local webs of my country you cant find anything cool, thats why i buy everything with ebay, but thank you for telling me that issue with the T41.

[@jakepatton3657]

Fun fact. The Thinkpad A30 was the first laptop ever with integrated Bluetooth. (2nd device ever)

[@FleetCaptainTalmid]

I've seen two A31p laptops and one has the green arrows, the other is black. I guess the change happened sometime in the middle of the A31's production. You can put second CD, DVD, hard drive adapter or Battery in either Ultrabay in the A30/A31, I believe. Odd design choice: The lower PC card cover is part of the HDD cover. My A31p has S-Video in.

[@dimensiongamer534]

the kool thing about those laptops are the sheer amount of configurability would love that in some of todays offerings

[@wildbill23c]

Yep, most are off the shelf, sorry that's what you get systems. I think some of the Lenovo and Dell, and probably HP's can somewhat be customized if you buy off their websites.

[@CommodoreFan64]

I would love one of these for a retro gaming PC setup as I'm limited on my space, and these would run just about any pre year 00 PC game you could think of, but I still love my Lenovo Thinkpad X131e Chromebook I was able to upgrade with a WD Blue 500GB 2.5in HDD, and 8GB or DDR3L ram, and even running ChromeOS it's one of the best laptops I've ever own for getting my work done.

[@Lukeno52]

I have a T43, but for some bizarre reason, IBM replaced the lovely copper-based cooler of the older T4xs with a mostly aluminium one! And it runs far hotter as a result.

[@Sutekh94]

13:16 No, I'm pretty sure that's the hard drive. =P

[@dabazokov]

Sutekh94 yep... it is he did the hard drive instead of the floppy drive!

[@adroid1127]

A31 looks so similar to my R40e (minus the six buttons along the left edge), lovely find, congrats!

[@themaritimegirl]

You were looking at the hard drive in the device manager. :P Very cool find - the A-series are among my favorite ThinkPads because of the two UltraBay slots. And the LS-240 drive is wicked! Sadly they only made them for the UltraBay 2000 and UltraBay Plus, so the Pentium III and 4 machines are the only ones that can use them. Now you need to find a ThinkPad G40 or G41!

[@lorumipsum1129]

themaritimegirl well, theirs Zip disk, which I personally prefer. I have my a 31 with a dvd drive and Zip drive in it, with a second dvd drive installed in the docking station

[@jwilliams5857]

A3x Series had the two UltraBay slots. The A2x-Series had a dedicated non-removable 1.44MB floppy and a single Ultrabay 2000 slot.

[@EpicLPer]

T60 Masterrace still tho ;D

[@televisionandcheese]

T61 ftw m8

[@lutherweiner8599]

T500 for life

[@2dfx]

Does your T60 have 2 ultrabay drives?

[@Browningate]

T61p Trumps all :-).

[@2dfx]

Forgive me, but the T430 looks like any run of the mill Lenovo Thinkpad...what makes it unique?

[@eltronicgeek1geek592]

at 10:17 what does that beep code mean cause my g6 266 gateteway 2000 Pentium 2 MMX PC does that beep code

[@armaghetti9317]

Nothing quite as relaxing as the sound of an ol' floppy drive.

[@thegeforce6625]

There is one with the 1400x1050 flexview IPS screen at my local used computer shop, might get it

[@fyredragon69]

I don't know if you already looked this up or thrown the A30 away, but those beeps were either the DIMMs or the System board and it was obviously the system board.

[@noelj62]

It makes a pretty FX sound when the floppies got inserted sequentially.

[@scottyTy]

When looking for a laptop around late 2000 and I asked our IT dept. what they thought of them. They called them IBM StinkPads as they were nothing but a headache with numerous issues with the quality of the ThinkPads. Took their advice and purchased a Dell Inspiron (don't recall which model). I was not a fan of the pointer stick on the keyboard as well. Funny thing is my Dell crapped out way before one of the new ThinkPads the company purchased the same time I bought my Dell.

[@le_Bizarre]

Can one install windows 95 or 98 in these IBMs?

[@vwestlife]

Yes.

[@rwdplz1]

I had a fully-loaded A31p, that thing was awesome. Was replaced with a then-new T61.

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

16:05 Did that episode of "Cosmos" came with one of the ThinkPads?

[@vwestlife]

No.

[@Lachlant1984]

If you get any LS-120 or LS-240 disks and you use them, you'll notice the drive makes very different noises when it's reading those disks, at least that's what happened with the LS-120 disk drive I used to use with my portable VoiceNote computer. I have an old Accurite Technologies Travel 120 disk drive which connects to a computer via a PC Card adaptor, that drive was somewhat noisey when operating, the spindle motor was a bit noisey as were the mechanics that manipulate the drive heads.

[@tobiasf.6841]

...amazing how well these thinkpads were built, if you would do such ultrabay/same drive test in today's Lenovo's they would probably screw up for some unidentified hardware issues ... thanks for this review!

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

Woaw a laptop with 2 cupholders. That's genius 👍

[@ikarosalpha8783]

that post code at 10:15 ment that the keyboard is defective I know that because I have a thinkpad R61 and the first time I tryed it, it beeped in that pattern replace the keyboard with one that works and it will start up hopefully.

[@fyredragon69]

Pretty sure its the system board... look up the beep codes.

[@connorm955]

The 1400x1050 panel is a Samsung LTN150PE www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/TFT_display

[@grayfiresoul]

I've got an A20m that I run Win 2000 off of to burn minidiscs with. I love the thing, but man, now I really wish it'd come with an optional LS-120 or 240 drive.

[@MicroChirp]

I've never heard that edit of "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" on local radio - it's strange that they didn't make Mike overdub the actual swear word.

[@ral446]

My neighbor just gave me an A31. Battery is shot, but it boots with the AC adapter plugged in. The one issue I've been having is that I can't get any network adaptors to work. I've plugged in an ethernet cable and tried an old USB network adapter. both see my home network and say they are connected but will not display any web sites. I'll keep trying. I'm running chkdsk c: /f on it right now to see if it might be a HD issue.

[@michaelquattrocchi1757]

You can grab a $6 IDE44 to MSATA adapter on eBay, and install a cheap MSATA SSD into these machines; the original ancient hard disks really were a huge bottleneck on all of them. Even running on the slow IDE44 interface, a modern disk makes these machines so nice to use. Worth trying if you haven't done it yet. The Chinese vendors even sell the 1.8" sized IDE44 to MSATA adapters for the Thinkpads with tinier and otherwise unfindable drive sizes.

[@michaelquattrocchi1757]

Those types of issues are definitely possible with SSDs, but I haven't had any of those kinds of problems with mine yet. I guess it depends on the disks and the type of use.

[@rmx77]

dell was one company that made a dual optical drive laptop the inspiron 8200 which it had a locked in optical drive on the front with a removeable one in the front which could either be an optical drive or floppy or even second battery.

[@Lukeno52]

The whole line based around that chassis had that option. The 8000 and 8100 had an amazing quality keyboard as well!

[@spectrHz]

I seems a lot of dell laptops from that era had the swappable drive option, I have an Inspiron 8000 and a Latitude CPx, the 8000 has the primary drive and the secondary drive, and I can swap floppy/cd/batteries between both of them.

[@Lukeno52]

SpectrHz Almost all of them used the modular drive bay, but only a couple actually allowed multiple CD/DVD drives. Fun fact about the 8000 and 8100: the CD drive on the left will not be recognised by the BIOS if no HDD is fitted! The modular bay one is fine, however.

[@spectrHz]

I'm guessing that has something to do with master/slave priority. My 8000 came with a cool pcmcia ethernet card too, nice old laptop. My keyboard is busted tho :/

[@wonderpierrot]

Don't forget about Apple. The older 1998-2000 PowerBook G3s had dual hot swappable bays which could accommodate optical drives, floppy drives and even batteries. They might even be the first company to offer such.

[@artthefarter]

I wonder if they would run Oldschool Runescape decent enough to play.

[@Halterung01]

Does the LS-240 trigger a Windows Auto-Play dialog when you insert a standard 1.44MB floppy?

[@wildbill23c]

I think the LS-240 will actually read standard 3.5" diskettes, not sure if it will write to them, I know the LS-120 drives would read and write to standard 3.5" diskettes. I think the last Lenovo laptop with a multimedia drive was the T440P.

[@Pyridox]

Those old IBM ThinkPad laptops (before Lenovo bought them out) were rugged units. I have a T41, T43 & T61 ThinkPad that I salvaged from my company when we moved as well. My T41, & T43 have CD-RW drives & DVD-RW on the T61. It's hard to find the old PATA 40 pin IDE drives., eBay is the best bet. I had to replace one of the power adapters, one was missing when I acquired the machines. The flashing battery light means the battery or power adapter has a problem.

[@spectrHz]

Don't move the T41 too much, it is actually not that rugged, they have a notorious design flaw that when flexed the motherboard can break solder joints on some of the chips, I lost a few t41s to that :(

[@codyw19965523]

I have a 2.6ghz p-4 in my a31. The temps aren't all that bad, but then again I did replace the thermal paste.

[@Kippykip]

Does anyone know a good desktop internal LS-240/LS-120 drive that's compatible with Windows 98/MS-DOS? Been looking for one since my retro PC can't have more than 2 drives connected.

[@stathissim]

I did not know there was an A series. My previous company started from T20s

[@RetroPCUser]

My ThinkPad R40 can have an optical drive, second battery (nice to have that, but they're hard to find sadly), and I could be mistaken, an LS 240 drive as well.

[@mariusberger3297]

I own an A30p. Everything works, including the battery

[@thelazywanderer_jt]

What's the version of Winamp you're using?

[@vwestlife]

5.581

[@lolman123401]

Does the drives work with 2.88MB disks?

[@Lachlant1984]

Does the LS-240 disk drive keep spinning its spindle motor even when the system isn't accessing the diskette? Like, if you put in a diskette and not try to access the disk, will the spindle motor keep spinning? I ask this because after you copied the first batch of files from the disk, the motor kept going for quite some time after the files stopped copying. On a slightly unrelated note, Compro made an MP3 player that used LS-240 diskettes if I remember correctly, I understand it also worked with regular 1.44 MB disks, although I wonder why you'd want to do that because you'd about a minute of audio at best on a disk. I think the literature for this MP3 player described the disks it used as Ultra SuperDisks, is that what Imation called LS-240 disks?

[@AftercastGames]

I've never owned an ls-120, but for regular floppy drives, the motor was controlled by the OS (or the BIOS in 16-bit OSes like MS-DOS). The OS would keep the motor on for a few seconds after reading or writing, just in case there was more work to do. Stopping and restarting the motor took up to half of a second, during which no processing could be done on some OSes. So it was just faster to leave it on for a while. CD-ROMs actually work the same way, and take even longer to spin up, although the drive itself could decide how long to keep spinning.

[@Lachlant1984]

Oh sure, they all makes sense, and yes, CD-ROM drives do take longer to spin up than floppy drives do.

[@vwestlife]

The motor does stay running longer than a normal floppy drive but it shuts off after a while.

[@mariusberger3297]

I scored a 15" 1600x1200 IBM ThinkPad A30p for free recently. It will go along nicely with my '01 PowerBook G4

[@armorgeddon]

Wow nice. Is that high-res screen still a TN-panel?

[@DaniRadioCat]

I happen to have a ZIP 250, an LS 120, and a bunch of other A31 accessories (I tend to use it as a bridge machine between vintage PCs and modern PCs, even have a SCSI card for it) For the Apple land, I use a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet as my bridge machine (because of its ADB, serial, and other legacy ports) as it has a floppy drive (I also have a DVD/CD-RW by VST, a ZIP 100 and a LS 120 for it)

[@thet4306]

i cant find the a30 i got one but this is the only place i can find another one

[@SudosFTW]

a site you don't see anywhere else? Latitude C840 could do two optical drives. one in the front C-bay and one on the left-hand side. Fairly certain you have there the IBM equivalent of my own C840 which at one point had that going, WITH FLP installed, but I had a gig and a half of RAM going at that point when I was lugging it around doing Adobe InDesign CS3 stuff for yearbook-related things in high school back in 2009. Friend has an A31p with a 1600x1200 panel installed, 2GB of RAM, and I *think* an SSD. he had it running XP a few years ago sitting atop all his servers in a rack, in a datacenter out in CA so he had a machine he could remote into for a fallback. I don't think it got shut off for a good two or so years while there.

[@Edward-bm7vw]

10:42 Based no the number of times it's beeping that's definitely a memory error. According to some specs I found it says: one beep, three short beeps, three short beeps, one beep means "Memory problem: bad DIMM or bad DIMM slot"

[@TechnologySpotlight]

That beep code is also for the system board so maybe that is wrong?

[@xtalplanet]

is it can play a 720p (HD) video? I have a IBM ThinkPad G40 Celeron (Desktop Processor on Laptop) from around 2004-2005, but it doesn't play a HD video (verry lag) *edited, I mean 720p (HD) not 1080p (Full HD)

[@connorm955]

If done a little bit of experimentation and found it helps out if you have a Core 2 duo or AMD equivalent and 128mb of video memory.

[@chainedenintenloup]

I don't know if I missed it, but ls-240 can format a 1,44mb floppy at 30mb if I remember correctly.

[@dawidczajkowski2442]

Normal 1,44mb floppy to 30 mb ?!

[@FooneTuring]

Yes, they use the higher-precision 240mb servo to do a special disk which has a 1.44mb intro track, then it switches to a high-density mode. If you put it in a regular 1.44mb drive, it'll show up as a tiny disk (like 32k?) that contains a text file saying "this disk is only usable in 240mb drives"

[@vwestlife]

LS-240 drives can format normal 1.44 MB floppy disks to 32 MB, but it must require special software because Windows does not give the option to format a disk to that capacity.

[@N2tech]

If you are able to use the cdrom tray as a floppy drive can you use the floppy drive as a extra hard drive?

[@themaritimegirl]

Yep - there are tons of options for the UltraBay. Floppy drives, LS drives, Zip drives, optical drives, a hard drive, or a battery.

[@stonent]

The MHK2120AT is the IDE hard drive you installed.

[@fixman88]

Damn, that thing is awesome! Two floppy drives or two CD-ROM drives? I have an old Panasonic Toughbook with a Pentium III in it that can swap out a single floppy or CD-ROM drive. Can one (or both) of the media bays accommodate an additional battery? The Toughbook can, but I don't have the extra battery.

[@wildbill23c]

Yes in the ultra bay on the right side you could put in an auxiliary battery, not sure if they ever made a 2nd battery for the left side bay. Been thinking about getting the 2nd battery for my T400, right now I get about 2 to 2-1/2 hours out of the 6 cell battery.

[@televisionandcheese]

Thanks for the 2000 key ;)

[@alynicholls3230]

its only any good for retro offline machines, i tried win2000 on an xp machine to see if icould speed it up but microsoft have shafted it it has missing components now required and the versions of dot net and others dont support w2000, so online is broken. if you want an operating system with that look and feel try nt4.

[@Xiefux]

What camera do you film with???

[@vwestlife]

Canon HF200.

[@TheRockandRollDoctor]

I have an R31 I wonder what the difference is?

[@werehyenataur]

can I have them? I need a ls-240 drive for my CNC upgrades

[@Gmoney6422]

what are the dos utilities and where can i find them?

[@ColasTeam]

These look like I could make some gains by just carrying them with me on a regular basis.

[@wildbill23c]

Yeah they're not exactly the cheap plastic junk that are built today. I just got a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop (desktop replacement) and it weighs 8 pounds LOL. Those old Thinkpads probably weigh about the same, or close.

[@snsm6730]

Missing HD caddy...the irritating ban of any used laptop buyer....trust me when I say I feel your pain !

[@prebenjaeger]

Which camera are you using lately?

[@vwestlife]

Canon HF200.

[@Veso266]

do which company are you working for?

[@acetominophen1981]

What is that red button in the middle of the keyboard ?

[@vwestlife]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

[@acetominophen1981]

Thanks.

[@eg1885]

Are the floppy and optical drives hot swappable?

[@themaritimegirl]

+Fry He was asking about the UltraBay devices in these laptops. They are all hot-swappable.

[@wildbill23c]

Yes, but I don't like to do that in mine. I just have this thought of shorting something out removing or reinstalling a drive so I make sure mine is off or in sleep mode first. I also have one of the drive adapters to install a 2nd hard drive in my T400, it works great with 5400RPM drives but I can't get it to work with a 7200RPM drive, so it may just not have enough output power in the ultrabay connector for the higher speed drives, however it does also work with the SSD's. The Ultrabay would accept media drives (CD, DVD, or combo drives, floppy drives, 2nd hard drives, as well as a 2nd battery).

[@marcinwarmuz3646]

I didn't hear you mention it in the video but how long did the A31's battery end up lasting?

[@vwestlife]

I haven't tested it.

[@tomtom98]

Shame. I picked up 2 A21's from work and both had damaged displays (yellow/brown tint). I use one of them as a server now.

[@compactc9]

Back when it was still under AppleCare, my MacBook's screen developed a couple of those spots, drove me nuts so I had it replaced. I doubt I'd go to the trouble if it did it again, as I have reached the end of its OS support with OS 10.11.

[@lolman123401]

compactc9 what cpu does your Mac have?

[@supervortex8363]

DDR ram in the A30

[@moth.monster]

Ah, desktop replacements. I wish they still made laptops like that...

[@imeakdo7]

post #617166 they still do.

[@KingASE88]

post #617166 they still do...

[@KingASE88]

Skeleton 11223 yes the new thinkpads are nothing like the old ones. They have the slimy keyboards and weird trackpads. But other company's do still make desktop replacements

[@asterbaster96]

HP even made one with a 20 inch screen not too long ago.

[@KingASE88]

Randamin Sanchez yeah and the Acer Predator 21 X with its 2 gtx 1080s and a curved 21 inch screen and a full mechanical keyboard

[@LuisMercadoorg]

Why didn't you install SP3?

[@vwestlife]

Because I'm not going to keep Windows FLP on it. I just did it for testing.

[@pojcharapoltosukowong]

What a versatile laptop!

[@alynicholls3230]

that thinkpad may need a bios battery, it will be under one of those flaps or the keyboard, even though you are ditching it it would have been handy to see which cpu is in it, it may have been a higher rated chip. of course it could have been a celeron but you never know, the best bit about thinkpads is the cpu is socketed.

[@fakofakoson1667]

What about running linux or cloudready to use it for modern productivity? retro gaming with some old games/emulators like say GBA?......

[@vwestlife]

I don't do Linux.

[@fakofakoson1667]

Then Cloudready could turn the machine into a somewhat speedy chromebook or if willing to spend a little on a RAM upgrade to max it out (according to Cnet it should support 1GB) you could install a current version of Windows. 7/8/8.1/10 can be installed on older unsupported hardware, it does require a couple of simple steps to tweak the installer but it works, I have done it with Windows 10 LTSB 32 bit on socket 478 (Northwood) assembled Celeron desktops and it runs rather decently; as for drivers for new OSes on old hardware "Snappy Driver Installer" has not let me down yet; even with a couple of rare unbranded VIA chipset based 478 mobos....

[@FleetCaptainTalmid]

Nice speaker test at the end. A30 series is considered as having the best speakers in Thinkpads. Also X300. Personally I think Z60m (multimedia Thinkpad by Lenovo) is up there.

[@onederdude]

Fleet Captain Talmid I actually have a thinkpad z60m but with no hard drive lid. I've been wanting to get it back in working condition.

[@lorumipsum1129]

I just got a a31 with the flex view screen, only doesn’t have a HDD.

[@eltronicgeek1geek592]

I want to know if u can do a update video of that ce laptop

[@vwestlife]

No, because I don't have it anymore.

[@eltronicgeek1geek592]

VWestlife oh OK

[@OrwaSmadi]

oh, the magic of Floppy disks.

[@thitichairatanavises1945]

VWestlife Who is made LS240 Drive for IBM???

[@hackerinsidetm4271]

Made probably by TEAC or some other company.

[@wildbill23c]

The LS120, and LS240 drives were built by Imation. They're actually called a superdisk drive.

[@adamfletcher4262]

A link to SP3 for FLP in case you wanted to install it to get all recent updates: support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/958255/service-pack-3-for-windows-embedded-for-point-of-service-and-windows-fundamentals-for-legacy-pcs-is-available

[@chrisg4069]

can be windows 7 installed on it ?

[@vwestlife]

Yes, but it would be very slow.

[@wildbill23c]

It would probably run windows 10 fairly well though. Seems older machines will run windows 10 better than 7 or 8 & 8.1. Throw some RAM in it and and SSD and see how it does with a windows 10 install.

[@BilisNegra]

+William Todd "fairly well"? Let's say barely acceptable if you're just surfing the web with a couple of tabs open.

[@connorm955]

@@wildbill23c Interesting

[@spike7269]

do you know if i can up grade the cpu on my IBM ThinkPad x60

[@vwestlife]

Yes.

[@spike7269]

so can replace the single core cpu with a Intel CoreDuo but which one do i need look out for. i have t60 that has a ram or graphics card has overheated and broken i am going try reball the graphics card but if i cant fix will the cpu go in the x 60 thanks for any help you cann give me

[@lolman123401]

spikes glitter bomb don't bother fixing it, junk it

[@DarkVeaerxD]

Holy shit, that's impressive machine.

[@sparksfly13]

does anyone know how to play dvds in Linux?

[@matthew8077]

If you bumped it up to 2 GB RAM could you install Windows 7?

[@irixperson]

You could but these laptops are from 2001/2. It wouldn't run preferably.

[@matthewjbauer1990]

I think VWestlife is one of many on KZbin that are all about originality of their vintage computers when it makes sense to do so. XP/2000 would be the way to go to maintain originality.

[@tech-5231]

A30 is 1GB / 2x 512mb max.

[@tech-5231]

last year i sold a a30 with 512mb and win7 installed for 20€ over ebay. it run empire earth with 3d accelaration playable.....

[@themaritimegirl]

It's not even for "originality", it's because Windows 7 would run like dog shit on this.

[@manuel0578]

Mine also came with the protective film lol, even though it has been used for years

[@randompiguy8181]

I have a Thinkpad A30 running Windows 98. Definitely is a big laptop.

[@AChilds52]

yup! she is quite big! what do you use it for and what screen do you have? I got the high res non-ips screen in my a30

[@randompiguy8181]

Currently I mainly use it for old games. I have the 1024x768 non-ips screen.

[@TheCyberbedouin]

can you give me a link for that legacy xp for old pcs?

[@vwestlife]

Just search for it.

[@TheCyberbedouin]

tnx anyway...i found it easy

[@xaer0knight]

whoa... a 240MB Drive those are rare. I have an old Gateway2000 Solo series P3 600MHz with a superdisk 120MB in it. Sadly, it such a rare format.. it is not worth keeping IMHO I wish all laptop has as many options as these Pad had, so many ports!

[@TheRailroad99]

The only useful side Port are USB ports. Rear USB ports are very uncomfortable. (If they are the only USB ports)