The beautiful bland ThinkPad reigns supreme in business after 35 years

[Gyrofrog]

@beschizza

I love ThinkPads

Rare 1995 IBM Thinkpad butterfly laptop meticulously restored

My wife and I met while working on these! We were fixing defects (wrong/missing components, bad ICs etc.) on the populated motherboards of these (and other) Thinkpads. We had internal nicknames for the different models; can’t remember which one was which but, given the timeline, this one was in production the year that we became permanent hires (& then I left to go work in IT the following year). When I left IBM, I think they had just incorporated then-new Pentium processors into the laptops, a…

@beschizza

trackpoint remains nestled between the “B,” “G” and “H” keys ([…] and some CIOs say they never use).

C’mon, guys! It’s not that hard to find. They even made it red.

[Old workplace joke]