A nice donation for the price of postage - ouch!

[paul.brett]

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Somebody at work offered me a nice early IBM Thinkpad 755. Similar (I think) to the one below. All I have to do is pay postage. From the US, it's going to be about $40.

Looks like a great little machine, and will take its place in my collection in a week or so, when it gets here. It's just a shame that the postage is so much. I'm guessing the power brick is largely the cause of that. I do hope the power cable from the socket to the brick uses a standard IEEE (kettle) connector, so I can use a UK lead.

 

[Unknown_K]

They are nice machines, have a few here.

 

[SkydivinGirl]

The 755/755CD was a very prevalent system when I worked at IBM but they were starting to get a little outdated at that time. I think my favorite ThinkPad from that era was the 600. Amazing little systems. I hope to stumble on one or two at some point for my collection.

Heather

 

[Pepinno]

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Somebody at work offered me a nice early IBM Thinkpad 755. Similar (I think) to the one below. All I have to do is pay postage. From the US, it's going to be about $40.

I got one several months ago, I show it in this thread.

Beautiful machine, indeed. Congratulations!

 

[Ole Juul]

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Somebody at work offered me a nice early IBM Thinkpad 755.

I had to log in to see the picture so I might as well write something.

What model is it? They seem to be very different. 755Cs, 755C, 755CS, 755CE, 755CX, 755CV, 755CD, 755CDV, as well as options and a special multimedia model. One thing I ran into with the ones I just got, is that they have different chip sets and drivers are not (if they ever were) available for all functions.

They're all worth having though. BTW, the "power bricks" I have are not very heavy.