Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A brief history of the ThinkPad laptop

History of the ThinkPad laptop begins in 1992, starting with a number of computers that manufactured and sold notified.the roots of the name comes from the penal system slogan from IBM by IBM.the slogan "THINK!" was caused by Thomas Watson and was in many brown leather sized-laptops, given to customers and employees.

Name of Denny Wainwright, an IBM employee who currently works for the company was suggested.While the name named Commission difficulties as a brand name, is inserted after the press, appreciation for who showed.The naming process for IBM computers is a number data type.

ThinkPads 700 c Windows 3.1 appeared in October 1992 with three models, starting with the 700, 700 C, 700 t as operating system, browser and a hard disk of 120 MB, 25 MHz processor and a small and revolutionary 10.4-Zoll-TFT-Farbdisplay of full weighs 2.9 kg or 6.5 lb weight only 56 mm, measured from 300 mm 210 and original cost of $ 4,350.

The prototype are significantly by the commercial version tablet had style with him design without a keyboard.the commercial find a pointing stick or TrackPoint device in bright red, with the result that the laptop without using a mouse.

A repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope included in December 1993 NASA tests will be carried out, on a ThinkPad 750.Road aboard the space shuttle endeavour to determine whether radiation, are included in the room can find anomalies in the or other unexpected problems.the space station in 2010 is still a lot of computers by is found used.

The design has in the entire history of the ThinkPad laptop praised for unique and original designs.the keyboard of a butterfly design from folded on the ThinkPad 701 in the Museum of modern art in New York can be displayed or not.

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