From dewar@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU Wed Oct 27 20:42:19 1993 Received: from SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU by uxa.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA12128 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:42:16 -0500 Received: by SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) id AA23324; Wed, 27 Oct 93 21:42:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 21:42:28 -0400 From: dewar@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) Message-Id: <9310280142.AA23324@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU> To: dewar@cs.NYU.EDU, ychou@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: IBM TP750C Status: OR Seems an excellent machine. If you can get one "in a few days" you are doing very well - it's very hard to find them (I had to pay a premium over list price to get mine - I have a 20 meg machine with a 340 meg disk). Out of the box, the sound card is proprietary, however, the disk with the OS/2 drivers on it also has "DOS drivers for games", which I guess will be a Soundblaster emulation, but don't know! From dewar@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU Thu Oct 28 06:12:55 1993 Received: from SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU by uxa.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA29992 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 28 Oct 1993 06:12:53 -0500 Received: by SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU (5.61/1.34) id AA25698; Thu, 28 Oct 93 07:13:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 07:13:05 -0400 From: dewar@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) Message-Id: <9310281113.AA25698@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU> To: ychou@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: IBM TP750C Status: OR THe SCSI port is only on the docking station I believe. The DOS sound driver that comes with the machine does not support games, but they are supposed to ship new drivers soon that do. If you really manage to get a 750C after only a month wait at a discount, you are doing *extremely* well. IBM stopped taking orders for these machines well over a month ago, and there are just none of them in channels at all. (In fact you could probably immediately sell your machine at a significant profit -- though I know you aren't allowed to :-) The 16 meg board was $1500 which turns out to be a very good price, these 16-meg credit cards are quite expensive. In fact I think the 8 meg board, which should cost only a few hundred bucks, even in this market, will give you 12 meg total, which should be fine for running OS/2. The one thing I have not managed to get working yet is my PCMCIA Megahertz modem -- I'm still working on that! BTW it comes with a *very* impressive multi-media demo, although so far that demo seems to work only under DOS (I set up my machine as dual boot, just so I can still run the demo :-)