Some days, Thinkpads happen.

Today an X21 happened to me.

$15 CDN thrift find, lightly battlescarred but holding up. This is about as far as it gets, can't see it's HDD. Don't think it wants to boot from a USB stick unless I get specific about format. Think maybe I better find the instructions of how to do a 32MB floppy format on a stick. Gonna try the older linux sticks I've got though.

Though might be able to boot compact flash, not sure, will maybe try that tomorrow.

Edit: urgh, shouldn't post late at night mistook this for the "bought" thread.

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 05:57:

Some days, Thinkpads happen. […]
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Some days, Thinkpads happen.

Today an X21 happened to me.

$15 CDN thrift find, lightly battlescarred but holding up. This is about as far as it gets, can't see it's HDD. Don't think it wants to boot from a USB stick unless I get specific about format. Think maybe I better find the instructions of how to do a 32MB floppy format on a stick. Gonna try the older linux sticks I've got though.

Though might be able to boot compact flash, not sure, will maybe try that tomorrow.

Edit: urgh, shouldn't post late at night mistook this for the "bought" thread.

Hey, people have been posting in wrong places on the internet since it's inception. So, that is also a retro activity.

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