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4 unusual facts about ThinkPad


G41

IBM ThinkPad G41, a model of the G-series Thinkpads, which were used as desktop replacements.

Morrisville State College

Considered one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the nation (in the year 2001) for its ThinkPad program and wireless technology initiative, the college recently became the first in the nation to comprehensively replace all phones in residence halls with individual cellular phones for students.

Original Pirate Material

The recording of Original Pirate Material lasted over a year, with Skinner recording the bulk of the album in houses in Barnet and Brixton onto an IBM ThinkPad.

Richard Sapper

In 1980 Sapper was appointed principal industrial design consultant at IBM and began designing numerous portable computers, including the first ThinkPad 700C in 1992, which broke with the company's tradition of pearl-grey machines with a simple and elegant black rectangular box.


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IBM T2x ThinkPad laptop computers were also featured as mobile workstations of choice for the characters.

IBM ThinkPad Butterfly keyboard

An IBM Thinkpad 701 is briefly seen being used by James Bond in the film GoldenEye.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

FLEX-ES must run on the machine with which it was sold; in the past, this included Compaq Proliant and HP servers, but today this is nearly always an approved IBM xSeries server or a ThinkPad laptop.


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