3 years and going strong!

[Gary Corcoran]

Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Guys,
> 
> 	Thanks to lotsa sweat, lots of help from this list, and $340,
> 	my ThinkPad 600E has served me will for three years.  iN a year 
> 	two or I'll be thinking of upgrading from a P-II [400MHz] to
> 	around 700-900Mhz.   But only a TP that has this tiny mouse-stick
> 	and three horizontal clickers.  I have use of only one hand and
> 	those [bleeping] scratch-n-sniff mouse-cursor devices are
> 	signifigant obstacles.  So:: can anybody tell me if there are 
> 	faster TP's that have this configuration.   [[ I figure using
> 	BSD or Linux doesn't require gigahertz processors; just one
> 	reason the unix-paradigm is tops.]]
> 
> 	(I have looked at eBay, but not for several months.)

You might keep an eye on geeks.com.  They sell new/surplus/used stuff,
and I have seen now-old used ThinkPads (e.g. T21 or A21) for under $400,
if I recall correctly.  I used to have a T21 (800MHz) at work, and it
still had the 'eraser' type built-in mouse.

Gary