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More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_701
LGR video: https://youtu.be/nRVJCtREW38
Mar 10, 2024 5:56 PM
DdCno1
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More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_701
LGR video: https://youtu.be/nRVJCtREW38
demoncatmara
Holy shit I want one (my ThinkPad is pretty great tho, still has the "nipple", tho I prefer to plug in a mouse with USB dongle rather than use nipple or track pad)
BobAllen2004
Hey, that's cool.
lightfoot2
That was the greatest design thing of all time. I remember having one.
DdCno1
How reliable was the mechanism?
DavidNightingale
Yes.
TheRealFireFrenzy
IBM thinkpads are the Nokia 3210s of the laptop world... you put a case on it to protect the ground...
evocatiranch
My dad still has his in his garage to run his CNC, it still works great and he uses it a few times a year.
lightfoot2
Never had one fail at the place I worked. Even trying to stop it wouldn't really break it.
DdCno1
Okay, now I want one even more.
pupquine
Works 30 times put of 100, every time
petresun
So my pops just started getting back into pc's (he taught me everything I know about pc building and got me prepared for airman school in NAVY) and this his his setup. It's an insert for an old server cabinet that he revamped. He's still got it.
petresun
He's running XP to save on processing load. He a madman.
DdCno1
You need to show him some lightweight Linux distros: https://kanger.dev/article/best-lightweight-linux-distros/ I've run fully featured Linux on machines that would make your pops' setup look like a supercomputer (even without knowing what kind of specs it has).
petresun
Hell, I need to look into this. I've got a ton of old hardware that needs some love.
ArandomDane
This was the design that ultimately lead me to the path of becoming an engineer. I was truly fascinated with it, when I encountered this machine, my stepfathers work laptop. When I finally became one, he gifted me the laptop I had opened and closed enough times to figure out the mechanism relation to the drawings. He swore it was in the 1000s where I think it was in the 10s.
The keyboard pushdown arm really sucks, I would know I am an engineer after all.
mushroommunching
wow, i didn't know they made that. NIFTY!!
BillHubbard
Had one of these. It was an awesome piece of shit.
PrinceOfWhales
Ah yes, the crumb muncher.
ViewDriver
Sudden nostalgia hit from remembering word muncher.
peppymints
I wish in could afford a laptop as unbreakable as these things were
brickius
I broke this just by watching the gif
Bystandr
But did it have 640K of ram ?
ironymus
"No system needs more than 640 k of RAM" Bill Gates
DdCno1
Obligatory "he didn't say that".
ironymus
Didn't he? I was pretty sure this quote is true
DdCno1
Bill Gates used to answer questions sent to him by E-Mail. Here's one such Q&A with him, where he denies he ever said that and explains why the quote never made any sense to begin with (second to last question - interestingly, he makes a wrong prediction after that): https://web.archive.org/web/19961106040603/http://www.htimes.com/htimes/today/access/oldfiles/gates23.html I also recall an older debunking of this quote from the mid '80s, when it was already a meme, but I can't find it right now.
DdCno1
This is older than 1996, by the way, as indicated by the "oldfiles" string in the URL, but the Wayback Machine only started crawling that year and it has no date, so I can't tell you exactly when this was published.
Wirefish
Those were kind of annoying to work on, tbh, iirc.
madnessfromthesea
here's an older portable! I remember my dad programming on these. The keyboard fit on top of the screen and I think the case had a handle.
DdCno1
Yup.
Do you still have it?
madnessfromthesea
I think my dad still has 2 or 3 of them. :D
madnessfromthesea
We used to play LodeRunner and other games on it.
Alkuam2
blwoodcock
Always happy to see a "Brain Donors" reference in the wild. Such a great movie.
eCheeseRunner
OMG I have been looking for this movie for like 20 years. I could never remember the name. I kept thinking it was like Screwballs or something. Thank you internet! Now please let it not suck relative to my 10yo selfs impression
DdCno1
This cuts off a bit too early.
Shaows
sourpants17
Movie doot
Misteree8
Anyone got the full gif?
CallThisAUsername
.
Shaows
bippityboppitybuttsex
Holy crap Brain Donors... a great remake of A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers, not Queen)
Righteousdew
The Queen album was named after the movie.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Then why isn't it called 'Brain Donors'... also, Brain Donors came out after the album
Righteousdew
What I meant is that the Queen album a Night at the Opera was named after the Marx Brothers movie of the same name. Just like how the album a Day at the Races is named after the Marx Brothers movie a Day at the Races.
bippityboppitybuttsex
No one understands comedy any more...
TK421isAFK
We had more fun joking about these than the classic IBM "mouse balls" jokes. Look, when you touch it the right way, it spreads its legs and exposes its sensitive little red bump in the middle, just begging you to touch and wiggle it!
Rauca
And apple launched laptops that the keyboard would freeze if a fly's wing got trapped under any of the keys.
LutraLazuli
As soon as I saw the gif, my thought went to "That's so a 90's ThinkPad", then I saw your links, and LGR is a good watch. Oh, did recently got myself a ThinkPad P53, and it's very good for my needs.
StuckintheVoid
and they had the clitoris mouse
BigBuckeyeZ
I'm glad someone said it
Davedavedavedavedave
fightfightfightlosewinfight
It's in the moma!
thecowkingdom
Thinkpads are the ancient beasts of the laptop world. I have a 2012 thinkpad that just keeps on going. It runs Linux mint and the hardware is still solid. I bought it a new battery in 2018 and I still use it regularly. The keyboard is especially good, decent travel, solid as a rock
mtreis86
Peaked somewhere between the x200 and x230
VincentVolaju
those and oldschool emachines with no added software. just barebones bitches.
rispil
and now a days that rubber coating is a gooey mess
zerogenix
that is a sexy keyboard
njafo5942000
Came with the blue screen of death.
jaggcomputing5
As with the rat dick pointer, a huge, colossal really, amount of money spent.
Rufferstuff
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
erikleorga
At my first job, one of my tasks to make the office cleaner was to disassemble the keyboards and wash them. Lots of people asked: "Did we get new keyboards?"
spinballwizardmtg
The Lappy 486 weighs in at an extremely portable 42 pounds, and sports a battery life of half of ten minutes. That's the Lappy 486, from Compy.
sadurdaynight
I had an old POS 386 laptop I got from a thrift store for like $50. It booted to DOS. I got Professional Write installed on it. Wrote a lot of college papers on it between classes. Battery lasted 1 hour on a good day. I then went back to college years later doing a class or two, and bought an old POS 266mhz WinNT lappy. Battery was shot. But, still, I wrote so many damn papers on that thing. If a piece of kit boots, it's still useful if you find a way to use it.
TalaayaCosplay
I can hear this comment
TK421isAFK
Uhhh...what happened to my web server?
Hulser
*Warning: Warranty voided after opening laptop more than ten times.
georgedragonslayer
*Warning: Warranty voided after opening laptop. - Fixed it for yah.
AxeDropper
Nah, man. IBM used to be the poster child for American engineering. They didn’t build the cheap Chinese crap we get now.
hgggggggggfd
you joke but those ibm machines were absolute tanks. . Up there with Nokia. But I don't know about that particular model.
BetelgeuseTheStar
These were built like tanks and didn't break easily. I had one. Makes me feel old, dammit.
drcookieninja
My thinkpad lasted over 8 years, but that was also when tech improved slower. My Dells these days last maybe 2 years
quzar
What do you mean 'tech improved slower'? An 8-year old laptop when this one was released would have had a black and white screen, no hard drive, and no PC Cards or other expansion options. Meanwhile a 10yo Win8 tablet can still perform all the same sorts of tasks as a brand new one. A modern 2 year lifespan tends to be more a reflection of planned obsolescence and arbitrary ending of hardware support than any kind of technological improvement.
drcookieninja
It's partly true. I did also look up where the laptops were made, my 2012 thinkpad was made in China, my 2018 dell was made in Texas. I would've expected the opposite given how quick it broke
DdCno1
American manufacturing is known for many things, but high build quality isn't one of them.
drcookieninja
Granted the thinkpad was only a browser machine at that point lol