IBM 755cd drivers

Hacker001

I found this in my dads old stuff. My mum told me that he used it when he worked at ford. It has windows 95 on it and is lacking drivers. I heard these came with dos and win 3.11. I was an idiot and broke the flopy dtive. Any ways if you could help me that would be great.

BTW: It's my first time posting here!
I rock a Toshiba Sat with 4gb of ram!

thinkpadman

How did you break the floppy drive? Do you have the CD-ROM drive around, as these were interchangeable.

Anyway, it didn't take me long to use Google and found some things about the 755CD model.

An article on a blog site that might be of interest and shows you the some of the insides and specs etc. In short these were released in 1994 as a high-end 486 laptop and later in 1995 an update was made to include a Pentium 75.
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-thinkpad-755cd/

The PDF version of 755CD's user guide.
http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/windows/lanet/thinpad/755cdug.pdf

Where the PDF is located, there's at least some of the original drivers as a starting point. Read the TXT files to see what they do, for example VETPE120.EXE is for the video drivers. Note however that these files typically expected to run on an older 16/32-bit machine and so if you are using a modern version of Windows on 64-bit they won't open. The EXE files were typically to package it all up and loads a small program to create floppy disk images. You could look at using a virtual machine to extract the files onto blank floppy disk images and then place those files onto a CD.
http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/windows/lanet/thinpad/

I'm fairly used to looking up ThinkPad drivers, as I have some 486 but mostly Pentium MMX models of ThinkPads.

Hacker001

How did I break it? I didn't know how it worked properly the first time so I pulled on it and I may have broke it. I'll test it again. Anyways thanks for the starting point!

And yes I do have the cd drive and it works.