The Oldest Thinkpad You Know Of That Has a CDROM

I'm looking at getting the Laptop equivilant of a beater, an old solid laptop with a CD ROM drive basically for the sole purpose of me loading Windows 2000 and StarCraft on and eventually testing stuff out on it that i wont even try on a VM, im currently looking on Ebay in the Thinkpad 7xx range, anyone know any good models that i could get for under $100 including shipping? honestly the older the better as long as it works and has a CDROM.

 

My old 600X has a CD-ROM drive.

 

I think the first were the 755CD and 360CD, from around 1994. I've got a 755CD with the optional TV tuner for the UltraBay. Bear in mind we're talking about 486s - the fastest 755 was 100Mhz, the last model before the 760s came out with their Pentiums.

 

@ Pocket Aces
honestly im not looking for that high of performance, i know it sounds weird but like 300mhz would be the sweet spot, i like old computers what can i say.

 

the 365 365x 365xd had cdrom at about 120mhz
the 390 series (390, 390e 390x) is about the 300mhz range

 

I have had thinkpads since the 600 series and that had a cd/rom

I have used

TP 600
TP 600e
TP 600x
TP T20
TP T21
TP T30
TP T42
and now this T61P

all of them have had CD/ROM's

 

Right Now I'm Looking at a 365XD. Anyone know what kind of ram it takes, will just plain old pc100 work? I know itll take a max of 40mb including the 8mb builtin.

 

I remember selling a TP365 in very good condition on Fleabay that had a CDROM. Think I got $50-60 plus shipping when I did; that would have probably been a year ago.

I thought it had more RAM than 40MB, but maybe I'm wrong (if I am, then it was maxed when I sold it), I'd have to look it up this evening. I believe it had a 6GB hard disk, and I supplied a PCMCIA ethernet adapter with it. I believe you'll be talking a PC-66 or faster SDRAM SO-DIMM module for the RAM.

 

770z would be a PII 366. I have two of these, but don't plan to part with them. These will run XP, but bring your lunch. Its slow going.

770x or 770e would be PII 300 IIRC.

All of the above have a selectabay that will hold CD or DVD or floppy or ZIP or 2nd battery or 2nd HDD. 6, 8 or 14.1 GB HDDs were common. www.thinkpads.com would be a good resource to check if you're into the old hardware.

Yes, they're bricks.

 

Im wondering if the PC100 out of my A21m would work in a 365XD, anyone know? i think the 365 is 66 and the a21 is 100 or 133 but that should still work right?

 

It should work just fine, as long as the module isn't too large for it to recognize.