Your first thinkpad?

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zqcolor · #31 Post by **zqcolor** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:08 pm

My first ThinkPad is an A31p 2653-r8u. This is my first ThinkPad and laptop 1049+30shiping=$1079 on ebay warranty till 11/07

ThinkPad A31p:
2653-r8u
15' 1600x1200 flexview
w2k server
Bought: 2-28-05
2.0GHz
40GB + 60gb HD
Memory 512mb
DVD/cdrw

dead 5 minutes after playing quakeIII, but there is no other problem, anyway, the lcd response time is 60ms, so fps game is not fit for it.

AlphaKilo470 wrote:Just got bored, so I decided to start a thread where you post what was your first ThinkPad and maybe any details you'd like to share.

My first ThinkPad, I acquired it a while back when at my father's place of work, his boss gave the companies leftover laptops to various employees. Since my father had no use for it at the time, he gave it to me. It was a ThinkPad 350c. The computer had 4 megs of RAM initially, I maxed it out at 20 megs. The hard drive was 120mb and the OS on it was Windows 95. The NiMH battery never did hold a charge, which was a shame because with that exception, this machine was still somewhat respectable at the time. I still wish I had never gotten rid of it.

joprodse · #32 Post by **joprodse** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:20 pm

My first Thinkpad was the small 240. 300mHz cel/128mb RAM/Win98 with the external DVD-plaýer that almost could handle decent DVD-playback

It's was soooooo coooool back then, and i carried it around all the time...

My first Laptop though (actually my first computor) was a Tulip Motion Line P166mHz/32mbRAM with CD-Drive. 12" display with SVGA resolution, uhhh, Things were NOT better back then

pphilipko · #33 Post by **pphilipko** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:06 pm

my first thinkpad was an i1300 700mHz , 184MB of ram, CD-RW drive, b wireless in 2001. In April 2004, I bought a T41p 2373 GEU, and now, I have an X402371-AV0.

syhead · #34 Post by **syhead** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:03 pm

My first tp was a 600E

baraider · #35 Post by **baraider** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:03 pm

my first one is the t42 2373-m3u...under my signature, my second one will be a t43 or the t42 m1u

Esteban · #36 Post by **Esteban** » Sun May 01, 2005 3:57 pm

My first ThinkPad is the T42 2373M3U. When I reflect on it it's the least costly and by far the best portable I've owned.

First "transportable" computer was a Kaypro, with the CPM operating system, about 20 years ago. Weighed 20 lbs. or so. Paid a little over two Grand for it.

First somewhat portable that I got worthwhile work done on was a Mac SE. Then a Mac PowerBook with a 640 x 480? screen. Followed by a TI 650, with a 10" screen and Win 95. The notebook prior to my ThinkPad is a Dell Inspiron 4000 with a 14" screen and Win 2000. It's 4+ years old and still limping along.

TakiusProteus · #37 Post by **TakiusProteus** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:28 pm

The IBM PC Convertible. A sort of "Pre-ThinkPad"

4.77 Mhz, 512K RAM

GoEatFood · #38 Post by **GoEatFood** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:29 pm

well, I haven't gotten it yet...but, my T42-FVU will be the first thinkpad I've gotten...I can't wait.

Nolonemo · #39 Post by **Nolonemo** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:43 pm

First "laptop" was the little Timex Sinclair 1000 computer with membrane "keyboard" and 2kb of ram, I sprang for the 16KB expansion module.

My first laptop was a Toshiba 1000e, a 286 machine with non-backlit b/w LCD about 640x300, ran DOS and Wordperfect

My first Thinkpad was a 560, sold to my sister and then replaced with 560x.

asiafish · #40 Post by **asiafish** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:03 pm

My first ThinkPad was a T20 bought in 1999, which was very unreliable for me. IBM service was fantastic, and after a year IBM replaced it free of charge with a brand-new T22 that was much better.

I used that T22 all through law school and on numerous trips to Asia, including some military assignments (I'm a reservist).

Thanks to Bill, I am now the proud owner of a T42p, but no worries, the T22 and a T20 I bought used on this list are serving well in the hands of soldiers in my reserve unit, with all three of us (and our thinkPads) Afghanistan bound in about 8 months.

ndoggfromhell · #41 Post by **ndoggfromhell** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:08 pm

My first Thinkpad was a 750 series machine, followed by a 755, a 760ED, a 760XD, a 770, and a 770Z... I only have the 770Z currently. All were preowned, but well taken care of.

Oh, and i came across a 360C that i've only used once or twice.

Other laptops i've owned included Toshiba's and Dell's. Thinkpads are the only way to go.

Orbitz · #42 Post by **Orbitz** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:46 am

My first Thinkpad was a T41p...actually 2 of them...I bought one for myself and one for my wife...she promptly decided she preferred her desktop machine so I passed the second one along to my assistant who is still using it. I bought them to replace a Toshiba Tecra 750cdt that was a great machine...went all over th world with me an never once had a problem..it was small but heavvvvvy. I actually ordered the Tecra from a store in Beverly Hills...I went to pick it up, got back to my hotel with it and fired it up and noticed it had a bunch of personal data on it...went back to the store with it and it turned out that Steve Martin had bought the identical laptop a few days before and had brought it back in to have something done to it...they accidentally gave me his

It had a copy of the script for Father of the Bride on it! He was standing at the counter when I brought it back in and we both had a pretty good natured laugh about what a great little machine it was.

I actually picked the Thinkpad becuase I liked it cosmetically and it was a great size:) I had no idea of its reputation for such a quality notebook beyond knowing IBM was very reputable etc.! Now I am ruined...every other laptop I look at just seems a little "cheesy" to me.

JHEM · #43 Post by **JHEM** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:42 pm

Six degrees of separation alert Shawn!

I've met Martin also, although my "connection" is a bit closer as my wife and I have known his old main squeeze Bernadette Peters for many years and we would often see them at parties in the Hamptons.

Regards,

James

bhtooefr · #44 Post by **bhtooefr** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:13 pm

First computer: Apple //c, Revision 0 (the Slot 5 easter egg works, and we never had a modem, let alone a third-party 1200 baud modem, so it HAS to be rev. 0)

First laptop: Leading Edge N3SX/20 (386SX @ 20MHz, 1.5 MB RAM, 40MB HDD)

First IBM laptop: IBM PC Convertible 5140 (with 512K RAM!)

First ThinkPad: Don't actually HAVE it yet, but it'll be an X21

First ThinkPad I've handled: A friend's (stolen - found that out later) 760ED

First LEGIT ThinkPad I've handled: A different friend's T40

mrdarcy · #45 Post by **mrdarcy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:33 am

My first laptop is a Toshiba Tecra 8200 which I got from my brother. Then before leaving for Australia I got a Acer which later I returned to get this Thinkpad T40(23737 - 72A). I will not change it for another laptop except a better Thinkpad

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Navck · #46 Post by **Navck** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:53 pm

When I get my T43 near the 22nd...
The first one I used? My father's company provided one, then the one he owned.

farmer kev · #47 Post by **farmer kev** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:48 pm

Bought a Thinkpad 355 from Kahlon, Win 3.1, 8 meg of memory, no expansion conector, modem broken,340mb hd, poor battery, 1.44 floppy, tired 9.5" mono display, 80486SX. Only saving grace is external color vga, 1998 it was my first internet machine, hooked up to a 15" trinitron, 33.6 Sportster I bought used from my isp, IE 3.0 and a used HP Lazerjet ll P I was checkin out the web! I do miss the feature where you can turn off images.

Couple of years ago I picked up a brand new 355 LCD lid assembly and I have 20mb of memory in it now. Sure would be handy If I could figger out why it won't use a x-jack modem.

bhtooefr · #48 Post by **bhtooefr** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:06 pm

I just realized... the first LAPTOP I've owned was not the Leading Edge box - that was the first PC laptop.

The first laptop I've owned was an Apple PowerBook 180. (It was a piece of crap, too - and that's without turning it on!)

Edit: farmer, if you want to be able to turn off images in a browser easily, try Opera out. Shift-G, and images are gone. Or, just click the glasses at the end of the bar with the address bar, and there'll be a button for it on the new toolbar.

r50cheapskate · #49 Post by **r50cheapskate** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:19 am

Oh this is fun. This little R50e 1842PPU is the first ThinkPad I've owned myself, but I fell in love with them what I think is a decade ago. I hate to admit that my prior machine was a Dell desktop, largely because at the time their financing would approve anyone, and two years ago a 19" flat panel was a lot sexier than it is today.

At my previous employer, I had the great pleasure of retooling the IT operation. It was a nonprofit, but the first thing I did was order new ThinkPads for everyone. I so coveted the one I bought for myself (souped up of course) that when they fired me I didn't care about the income (which went way up on the next job, but that was a Dell-centric company, which I hated) so much as giving up the machine.

Here's what I don't get: So many companies give their employees crappy and/or old machines. Why don't they realize that a day's lost productivity (for senior staff...) can cost more than an entire brand new ThinkPad?

<^_^> · #50 Post by **<^_^>** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:18 pm

I think I had a computer in 99' that was a thinkpad, but I'm not too sure, my current laptop is a 600e bought from a friend for $90.

Now for my opinion on this thinkpad:
It's the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used, even compared to desktop keyboards. Very sturdy laptop, not a desktop replacement like dells, but what a laptop should be, and It's actually small enough and comfortable to use on your lap, which you can't do with current laptops, which is probably why they changed the name to notebook.

Rob Mayercik · #51 Post by **Rob Mayercik** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:57 am

Ok, I'll join the parade - this is a fun thread.

First, current and only TP is my trusty 600 (2645-45u), bought 2.5 years ago from a used laptop vendor at a local computer show.

It's been upgraded a bit since I got it (60GB HDD, DVDROM/CDRW drive, max RAM), and so far my ownership experience has been wonderful.

Rob

lilserenity · #52 Post by **lilserenity** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:03 pm

ThinkPad 560. It was the 133MHz Pentium model with 8MB and the 1.2GB hard disk I'm pretty sure. Oh and it had the 12.1" active matrix screen, not the DSTN 11.3" screen with the external floppy drive.

Not long after I also acquired a 765D which was a massive machine (2" thick) by all accounts.

yukit · #53 Post by **yukit** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:27 pm

I'll play.

It was a 486 DX2 Thinkpad (company given)
I remember that I need to carry two sets of hard drives (one was for development, another for different version of OS for testing)
I also had a 2nd laptop bag to occasionally carry the docking station which was about the same size as the Thinkpad.

Spanky · #54 Post by **Spanky** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:27 pm

I'm new to this forum. I got a IBM 750p laptop from a pawn shop a few months back and I am trying to get it in working order. I trying to find out more about it.
I found out the price when it was new was $3,000. I'm glad I paid $75. It has windows 3.1 on it. Is it possible to run windows 95?
I hope you'll excuse a newbie.

Thanks

Spanky

bhtooefr · #55 Post by **bhtooefr** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:06 pm

You got a 750P?

NICE!

You got IBM's first tablet PC - a predecessor of IBM's flagship X41 Tablet, along with the 350P (IIRC, that's the model).

How much RAM does yours have? If you've got 8MB, 95 will run. However, that depends on your definition of "run" - a machine that old will struggle. Also, you'll have to get a hold of Pen Services for Windows 95, which could be tricky.

#56 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:21 pm

Actually, I wouldn't underestimate these old computers abilities. 8mb of RAM and even a 25mhz 486 can be pretty fast for a basic Windows install. I remember that being the configuration of my old 350c before i upgraded it to 32mb ram and before and after that RAM upgrade, Windows 95 went pretty fast.

epbrown · #57 Post by **epbrown** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:32 am

My first laptop was a Tandy 1100. I bought it because I was living in a crappy studio apartment writing The Great American Novel ("The Cain Principle" - I still love that title) at all hours on an old Royal manual and my neighbors were complaining about the noise. The sales clerk kept trying to sell me on all the capabilities and I said "I just want a glorified typewriter, buddy."

A month later, it stopped booting. I took it back to Radio Shack and they sent it to Texas to repair - it was gone for 3 months, and came back still broken. They refunded my money and I asked friends about a reliable laptop - every friend that wasn't using a Powerbook mentioned the Thinkpad. I bought a refurbished 355 from a place in NY.

As someone that's typed over 500 pages of text on one, I can assure you - the keyboards of that generation (500/355/750) have never been surpassed on a laptop! Louder than modern ones but great feel, great key action, and indestructible. Oddly, the one that most reminds me of them is the keyboard on my Transnote.

I sold the 355 when I traded up to the 701C. As someone wrote, I wish I'd kept the first one. I kept my 2nd Thinkpad (the 701 is seriously upgraded) and I plan to keep my 2nd BMW (the 2003 Z4), though right now I still have the first (2003 325i).

AndyL · #58 Post by **AndyL** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:00 am

Oh boy, how can I possibly resist a computer nostalgia thread...

joprodse wrote:My first Thinkpad was the small 240. 300mHz cel/128mb RAM/Win98 with the external DVD-plaýer that almost could handle decent DVD-playback

The first Thinkpad I used was also a 240. It was a company laptop that was carried around by whoever was covering out-of-hours support. It was well-liked for its tiny size and light weight. Got stolen unfortunately. After we bought that, our company got in bed with Dell, so all our machines are Dells these days.

The first portable PC I ever used was an IBM luggable, can't remember the model. It had a red monochrome plasma screen. Running DOS and Windows 3.0 I think. If anyone can remind me what model that might have been I'd appreciate it. It'd be pretty cool to get hold of one of those I think. (Depending on your definition of cool obviously

)

First laptop I used was a Compaq 486, with a greyscale screen and Windows 3.1. Its pointing device was a trackpoint type of thing but in the lid of the machine, next to the screen. The buttons were on the back of the screen, so you used the pointer with your thumb and reached round the back to click the buttons with your first two fingers. Worked reasonably well actually, provided you weren't left-handed!

First laptop I ever bought with my own money was a Toshiba Libretto 100CT. Very small, Pentium 166, little 800x480 screen, and coincidentally had exactly the same pointing device arrangement as the Compaq I described above. Only quite recently retired to be replaced with my current Thinkpad X24.

bhtooefr · #59 Post by **bhtooefr** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:33 am

http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibm/P70/default.htm

The PS/2 P70 "Luggable".

386 and 486(SLC or DLC, I'm sure) processors.

Anyway, I've toyed with the idea of getting a Libretto 110CT (same as your 100CT, but with a faster CPU - 233MHz

), but then I realize that my X21 is plenty small, and much more powerful.

AndyL · #60 Post by **AndyL** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:03 am

P70, that's the one! Thanks!

The biggest limitation of the Libretto 100CT/110CT is the RAM, I think. 64MB max is just not enough these days.

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