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The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery

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Or gets a blue screen of death. Or has a red trackpoint that gets dirty and gets worn down. Yep, the precursor to the original IBM ThinkPad was just a pad, with the word “Think” imprinted on its leather binding.

Apparently this pen and paper ThinkPad was what inspired an IBM researcher to name the company’s computer ThinkPad. Man, I still love paper. Maybe even more than the ThinkPad T400S I wrote this post on. [A Continuous Lean]

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