Fast Company

This IBM ThinkPad was astounding in 1995—and still is

Closed, it looks pretty much like any other laptop manufactured in 1995. To be sure, it’s more compact than most—making it, in the parlance of the day, a subnotebook. But it’s still comically thick, ...
GIGAZINE

IBM's ThinkPad 701 was once 9.7 inches wide, but its butterfly structure allowed it to house a full-sized 11.5-inch keyboard.

The early ThinkPad 'ThinkPad 701' released in 1995 housed an 11.5-inch keyboard in a 9.7-inch case. Technology editor Harry McCracken explains how it was housed and why it was designed like this. The ...
Liliputing

Framework Mainboard breathes new life into the classic ThinkPad 701C with a “butterfly” keyboard

The IBM ThinkPad 701C and was one of the most unusual laptop computers released in the 1990s thanks to a sliding keyboard system that allowed IBM to pack a full-sized keyboard into a notebook that ...
Business Insider

This 22-year old ThinkPad had an amazing pop-out keyboard that was way ahead of its time

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Lenovo is celebrating 25 years of the IBM ThinkPad laptops, which were first released in 1992, with the special-edition ThinkPad 25. The 25th ...