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Description:
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Yes, it's old. But 7 years ago, it was in my budget. And shortly after acquiring it, I switched to linux, never looking back!
The Thinkpad 360 PE has a pen interface that works alot like the PDA grafiti deal, but I've only seen it work in Win31 (was was installed when I got it). I switched it to OS/2 (my preference at that time) and the pen worked as a mouse, and the hibernation feature worked in both those OS's.
After switching to linux, I've never gotten the pen interface or the hibernation to work. First installed rh5.2, then upgraded. Will soon be ugrading to gentoo. The 360 PE shares hardware with the 750, so I have been able to upgrade the drive from the original 340MB to 4G; and get new batteries.
On installing, there is no internal CD drive; but I have an Adaptec 1460 SCSI card to attach my external CD. However, IBM saves realestate on the motherboard by inverting the floppy-detect line, so -- after much research -- I found that you must include "floppy=thinkpad" as a parameter on the boot line from the floppy boot, or it will never see the floppy change correctly. I also have a Xircom 10/100/56K card that I use for network connections, and the upgrade to rh7.2 was via FTP from another system.
On my first install, I just took the drive out of the thinkpad, opened up the custom drive holder, and inserted the actual drive into a toshiba that a friend had, and installed from there. At reboot, I put the drive back into my laptop, and everything worked, except the floppy until I found this workaround on the net.
Because I can't get the hibernation feature to work, the boot process consumes about half the battery, so I don't use it on the road. Also, I can't do GUI on the LCD (works fine in OS/2, Win31, and Win98 -- all on other drives I've got for it); I don't have the correct frequencies for the proprietary (and now obsolete) screen, and attempts at GUI result in a lockup or other unusable condition.
CPU runs at 25MHz on battery and 50MHz on AC.
Too slow for dev work, but fine for email, which is all I use it for these days -- mutt is a great tool! And I've been learning alot about sendmail, fetchmail, procmail on it.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 4
model : 3
model name : 486 DX/2
stepping : 5
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme
bogomips : 24.93
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Thinkpad 360 750
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/sbin/lspci output:
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n/a on rh7.2
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