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[โ€“] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am really proud of this machine, I made sure to build the best variant possible:

  • modded IPS display from an A31p
  • dual boot with Windows 98SE + XP
  • BIOS downgrade for DOS compatibility
  • undamaged base cover from an A22m
  • original software from an A20p recovery CD that eggi36 recently uploaded to archive.org
  • hinges sanded down and made smooth again
  • nearly unused keyboard without any shinyness from an A21
  • replaced ADP3421 (the device originally had blink of death)
  • ThinkPad Dock II with a silent Noctua fan and an ATI Radeon 9250SE

It took me several years to make this machine as "perfect" as possible with various parts. While I have several other ThinkPads that I really like, the A22p was the very first notebook I ever bought and therefore has a special nostalgic value.

The only thing I'm missing is a 1GHz Mobile Pentium III, this one only has the 900MHz variant (for now).

[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago