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Well, per the signup letter, here's my info: I own a Thinkpad 701cs (superfly...errr...butterfly). I bought it in March of 96. It was a display model from the store I was working at, Computer City. I paid $200 for it, as-is, but with warranty (???). Basically, they didn't have a power supply, port replicator, battey, or any of the extra's; but it DID have full warranty from IBM. The store manager didn't even think it worked anymore. So I bought it, and have somewhat sat on it for over a year. I just never got around to buying a battery, or any of the other stuff it needed. Finally, a few weeks ago, I have a few hundred bucks to spend after paying of the bills and such, so I decided to re-commision this thing. I bought a battery and power supply for it. So I startred it up for the first time, and lo and behold, it worked! Well, sort of. It would run off of the power supply, or it would run off of a battery, but would not see the ps if the battery was present. Hmm.. that means no charge. Hmm.. So I shipped it back to IBM via Easy-Serv (what an incredible painless process!), they replaced the MB and Keyboard (I guess it needed it), and had it back to me in 4 days as promised. I got it back, and now it charged batteries! However, the PC Card slots had ceased to function. Back to Memphis. I sent it back, they replace the MB again, and had it back to me in 3 days (weekends not included). Impressive. I think the longest part of the entire process was Fedex getting the package from their hub here in vegas, to myy office a whole 1.5 miles away. They can get a box from Memphis to Vegas in 5 hours, and then 8 hours to get it to my office from there.. heh. Anyway, SO I have my Thinkpad back, It works, I flashed the Bios, and put 95 on it last night. Almost there! Plugged in my recently acquired ethernet card, and bam, I was networked! Only thing left is to get a 16mb chip, and a port replicator. So I sent off the money for the Port Replicator today. Some guy in Wisconsin had one. $100. That's reasonable. All that's left is the Ram, which I had seen at the Chip Merchant (www.chipmerchant.com) for $93 last friday. Unfortunately, today they disavow any knowledge of such pricing.. Back to the drawing board. So, to sum up, todays quest? 1 16mb chip for a thinkpad 701. Anyone have any recomendations? ---------- Vernon Brooks <merlin@skylink.net> Skylink Networks Technical Support Las Vegas, NV (702) 260-0900 x228