On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:35:03 -1000, "David Ross" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> I see that URL is on the Lenovo server. Having spent so much time looking
>> for the diskette for myself I am curious how you did find it.
>
> Honestly, I can't remember.  When I'm doing this kind of web search I kind 
> of zone out and let my fingers do the searching.  It is usually faster for 
> me than trying to think things through consciously.
>
>> Is there a
>> path you could describe that should have navigated me there? Even putting
>> i7tm25us.exe in the search box brings 0 results. Teach a man to fish etc.
>
> I didn't bother looking on the Lenovo website, since the maintenance 
> diskette is not supposed to be for end users.  I used a general search 
> engine (duckduckgo and/or google) on the file name i7tm23us.exe, found that 
> there were newer versions, and then merged the old ibm pcbbs website path to 
> the newest version with the Lenovo path 
> download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs... that seems to have replaced it 
> for most files.

I had not heard of duckduckgo before, so thanks for that, and the magic
ingredient seems to be already knowing the file name of the part I had
been chasing.
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