Re: ThinkpadZ

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From: Andrew Scott Beals (bandy_at_ricochet.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 19:40:25 EST


Are you speaking of the 5100 and 5110 machines? They were quite the little
workhorses. I used them in the mid seventies...

rudolph wratten wrote:

> Hello.
>
> The first laptop IBM sold was the "Convertable".
> This machine was a marketing failure,so much so
> that IBM convertables were being sold on the, then new, shopping channel.
> The first portable computers IBM made were used by the military in the late
> 70s, they really did very little, that was when they worked at all.


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