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John Hobbes , posted
10/2/09 1:31 PM
This picture was taken by one of the few remaining owners of an original Think pad from IBM. The Think pad was a promotional giveaway item from IBM that ended up inspiring the name of the now famous line of computers. I read somewhere, which I now can’t find the source for, that you can still buy the Think pad from IBM, pad refills as well, but it is no longer real leather; weak sauce. Source: [A Continuous Lean] Filed under: ThinkPads One Response to “Blast from the past: original IBM Think pad”Leave a ReplyOther Stories | ThinkPad and IdeaPad News Blog, Reviews, Deals & Coupons Exclusive Lenovo Offers
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uhmm, well, heres the story as i know it..
the THINK Pad was a note pad IBM engineers and others all carried in their shirt pockets so they would have a place to write those brilliant insights down and thus memorialize them..
these were, AFAIK, internal to IBM but i’m sure many escaped..
i have two..
one brown like the one pictured above and one black..
(i HAD to have a black THINK Pad, don’t ya know!)
i also have a copy of THINK magazine memorial edition, published when the founder of IBM, thomas j. watson, died..
THINK was the motto, more or less, of IBM..
it was a natural that when the competition to name the new notebook computer included “THINKPAD” that that was the name chosen..
i could go into the inspiration for the black finish being the japanese bento box (a lunch box carried by japanese workers) and how the ThinkPad S30 (of which i also have two in perfect condition, one the piano black finish and one the standfard rubberized paint finish) but boredom must be setting in by now..