Category Archives: IBM

IBM ThinkPad 240

I’ve always been a fan of ultraportable laptops, from the venerable ThinkPad 500 to the ever-so-slightly more modern ThinkPad T460s that I currently use. Back in 2013, I got my …

IBM ThinkPad 235/Hitachi Flora/Chandra

What weighs 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg), has 3 PCMCIA Slots (2 x CardBus, 1 x PC Card), an active-matrix TFT color display, built-in Sound Blaster-compatible sound, an HDD, a plethora …

IBM ThinkPad 860 (RS/6000)

Introduction Every now and then, you acquire a machine that nobody else has heard of. Sometimes, its rarity is dictated by the niche market it was sold in. Sometimes, a …

IBM PS/2 Model P70

Introduction It’s 1989. Most people are using 286 or 386-based systems with 2-4 MB of memory, and an EGA monitor. Some people are still using the IBM 5150 PC or …

IBM TransNote

What if you could take a traditional laptop, couple it with a paper notepad that recognizes your handwriting, and wrap it all in a sleek leather binder? More specifically, what …

IBM ThinkPad 500

Around the end of 1993, there were not many laptops that weighed less than a book and used as much power as a nightlight. At the time, we were traveling …

IBM ThinkPad 770Z

The 770Z was the top-of-the-line IBM ThinkPad laptop from 1999. It offered several features that were absolutely unheard of at that time in a laptop, such as a DVD Player, …

IBM ThinkPad A31p

The ThinkPad A31p is an oddity. It came after the 770Z, which was IBM’s previous workhorse laptop. It also came before the “G” and “W” (Workstation) Series of laptops, the …

IBM ThinkPad 701c

I am an avid ThinkPad collector, having owned (at one point or another) more than 50 ThinkPads as of December 2014. The one that stands out as having the cleverest …

IBM PS/2 L40 SX (L40SX)

The L40SX is a well-built IBM laptop that was part of the PS/2 (Personal System/2) lineup, released around 1991. It has a 20MHz 386SX processor, with a hardware switch to …