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badre:
Hi,
What is the latest model of thinkpad with integrated floppy drive ?
Thank you.

Olafur Gunnlaugsson:

--- Quote from: badre on May 25, 2021, 10:04:20 am ---Hi,
What is the latest model of thinkpad with integrated floppy drive ?
Thank you.

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IBM stopped supplying floppie drives as standard back in the 90's, they replaced them with "Ultrabay" a hot swappable slot that can take CD-ROM's, floppies or batteries etc., depending on need. I think the last Thinkpad series that came standard with a floppy were some of the 300 series (486 era), AFAIK all the newer models had the floppy drives as Ultrabay options, the last models that could take an Ultrabay with an internal Floppy (Ultrabay 2000) were the T2x series and the A3x series.

badre:
thanks for these informations.

Neil Waldhauer:
As far as an UltraBay Floppy that can be swapped in place of the CD drive, I think the T540p series is the last one.

https://www.blondeguy.com/computer/strobopeep.html

Olafur Gunnlaugsson:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on May 25, 2021, 03:31:37 pm ---As far as an UltraBay Floppy that can be swapped in place of the CD drive, I think the T540p series is the last one.

https://www.blondeguy.com/computer/strobopeep.html

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I thought the ultrabay 2000 was the last ultrabay that was hooked up to the legacy controller, was there an internal floppy drive available for the 540?

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