I'm putting the finishing touches to an old laptop that I bought my sister when she went to university and has since sat in a wardrobe for years - it's an IBM Thinkpad 385ED (P166MMX) - I've now upgraded it to 80Mb of ram (16mb soldered + 64mb module), a brand new 60gb hdd (Ontrack 9.57 to gain access to the full capacity) and a 10/100 pcmcia card for mass data transfer (using a dos packet drivers and the excellent mtcp suite).

This thing is built like a tank and about 3 inches thick with the lid closed.

I've found that the built-in audio is a CS4236 and is Soundblaster Pro compatible via the 'drivers' available from IBM/Lenovo (it doesn't need a loadable driver or a tsr, thankfully).... however, being primarily a business class machine it only has one (surprisingly loud!) speaker. So i'm trying to find either clip-on speakers or a soundbar for the screen... these all seem to be usb-powered though.

Has anyone seen anything on their travels that could be useful for this type of thing? I'd prefer something powered from maybe a handful of AA's or a 9v battery if possible, rather than mains.

That's the first thing (and I can live with it in mono for the time being), the second is more problematic... this machine uses the typical IBM trackpoint; aka 'the red nipple of doom'. The pointer still works well in the BIOS, but I can't get cutemouse to pick it up - it just locks the machine when I try to run it. I would have thought it was interfaced using PS/2 protocol and cutemouse would have 'just worked', but it seems not.

Anyone else have a Thinkpad of this (or similar) vintage - what are you using for DOS mouse drivers? Although IBM/Lenovo have DOS drivers for *every* other piece of the hardware (including infrared! and pcmcia!) there are none listed for the trackpoint.