IBM thinkpad 755cx p75, 8mb, 810mb, TFT, cost me $50, it's in great condition, nothing chipped or broken off, just a few scratchs on the outside. Now I'm sure most of you know I have the 8746 ecm with 160 baud aldl data stream. What would be the best software for the LEAST amount of money. Let's just say I'm going to have to save up for the software! I've heard that diacom isn't worth it, that there are better prices and better software. I've been looking around and just curious what you guys would get. No I can't use Craigs free software, doesn't work with my ecm.

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, Jon (350 TBI!)
91 Red My website

 

hwere did you find the laptop. I can't find anything for under $400 , even for a POS 486 type.

James

 

Try eBay
GNTtype.org classifieds
Turbobuick.com classifieds

 

Gee, and for all these years I could have been doing better, oh well.
BTW, I've been using Diacom+ for years now, and I like it. But, like all things YMMV

One thing to watch with the Thinkpads, is when the battery goes really dead, it won't boot even on a charger..

 

http://www.bobjohnson.com/shop/searc...ops%2FMachines

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, Jon (350 TBI!)
91 Red My website

 

I'm making some minor progress with the 160-baud data stream. Basically coming to a crossroads as to whether or not to use CTS scanning or just pull bytes in quick & parse em on the single channel of the MAX232 (leaning to the latter). Either way. I'll be targeting parsing of the 8746 TBI systems first. May be kind of basic at first, but I might be able to get it up & running in the next few weeks (not that much to do really). Crunch-time at work till the 6th (maybe after I can steal some of BigOil's time back), and the wife has me packing for a move in July, but otherwise I could maybe squeeze some time in soon.

...Although, the freshly-balanced (+/-1gm)& honed (.031) 383 4-bolt parts in the garage are calling my name...can't let the crank & block sit in plastic bags too long! They're ready for a good washing, oiling, & torqueing.

 

My friend Kevin and his wife gave me his P90 Dell Latitude. Only has 24megs of ram and a 1.2gig drive, but at least it works.
This PROM burning stuff really intimidated me, but after reading Traxions' tech article
and joining the diy-efi list, it doesn't seem to be as comlicated as I had thought.
I'd like to meet some programmers here in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA and learn first hand since I learn quickly while observing.


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i bought EASE software for $315 US. So far very happy with it. User manual is 158 pages. Does 47 parameters on an 88 iroc.

Dave

 

I bought EASE for engine scanning and tunercat for chip dumping. What is it you wanted to do?

Or do you need s/w to run your ibm?

dave

 

Still waiting for your 7747 ECU version, Craig. Even though I realize the program will have to be totally re-written, which is beond me, unfortuantely. I can have dreams, can't I? I need something for that HotCam PROM tuning in a few weeks...