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Hello, I just subscribed to this list and thought I would introduce myself. My name is Frank Peckham, and I bought a 701 about four months ago when it seemed they were giving them away. The specifics of the machine are: Active screen 720 HD 24MB Ram 2 Ni-MH batteries Docking Station Panasonic 4x CD-Rom Zip parallel port drive Win 95 I didn't have any trouble putting win95 on it, even though I had read you need to upgrade the bios. Bios is now BUTUS3M. Modem was a little funky, but change intialization string and seems fine now. Now it so happens that just before buying my laptop, I saw some Ni-MH batteries at Comp USA for $9.95. At that price, I figured I'd use them to run the lights on my bicycle, so I picked up two. Didn't do much with them because I had no charger, but figured I could use the trusty car charger/ if I was careful not to over heat them. A month ago, however, my Mother in law sent some computer bits that had been in a thrift shop, thought they might be useful. Turned out one was a charger for TP700 batteries like the two I had, as well as a battery, a power supply, and some sort of number pad with what looks like an over sized phone cord jack for a connector. Anyway, I though I could probably run my laptop off the TP 700 batteries which have about twice the capacity of the 701 batteries but the same voltage. I just need to make an adapter and I will be ready to go. I don't suppose anyone has tried anything like this before? Well anyway, I let you know what happens -Frank __________________ peckham@netcom.com