Re: Going price on Thinkpad 700C?, details below.

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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?