Re: [Thinkpad] Restore CD's

IBM isn't going to have the recovery cd, so you might try ebay for that.

Drivers, etc should be downloaded from IBM's website. Just type in your
machines model number at the "Quick Path" location, and get your
downloadable files.

I'm wondering, does your laptop have a MS license sticker affixed? If so,
that would be enough to make Windows 95 legal, as if anyone at MS really
cared.

IBM may have shipped that model with Lotus Smartsuite; I doubt it had Office
97 preloaded.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Shiftright" <saab_900@gmx.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:17 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Restore CD's

> I am wondering, where and if I could acquire a restore CD-rom or
> floppy set for my <expletive deleted> 560 (2640-10U). Since I own the
> machine, I would think that legally, right, I would own the licenses for
> the pre-installed software, which as I would think, would mainly be
> Windows 95 and Office 97 Professional. Anyway, so then it would be legal
> for me to use the Win 95 and Office 97 CD's I have right here on this
> machine? (despite both CD's and keycodes being used on another machine).
> I also need all the Thinkpad-specific software and drivers for the 560.
>
> I still want to run IBM PC DOS 2000 on the machine, but maybe a dual
> boot with Win 95 (since W2k seems to not be viable on a 133mhz machine
> with 16mo ram, so good for my "Y2K everythang" idea (wanted to have
> Office 2K too)).
>
> Anyone know?
>
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