A Tale of Two Tiny ThinkPads
Among its quirky siblings, the ThinkPad 240 was perhaps the most "normal" of IBM's subnotebook models in the late 1990s -- but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to repair.
Sources:
ThinkWiki 240 page: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Catego...
"IBM's 3-Pound ThinkPad," PC Magazine, July 1999.
"A Bumper Crop Of Notebook PCs," Computerworld, November 15, 1999.
"Connect Anywhere," PC Magazine, August 1999.
00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - A pair of broken laptops
02:38 - Teardown
06:04 - Damaged USB port
08:45 - Plastics and display repair
10:50 - OK fine, I'll install Windows 98 this time
14:08 - Up and running
15:08 - passport.mid rules!!!
16:33 - Why didn't anyone buy these?
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