how old is everyone

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Blake · #1 Post by **Blake** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:45 pm

just curious.....

thinkpads arent as common esp with the younger crowd.

well im 23 and got my first thinkpad at 20 or so. good old t22

#2 Post by **thePCxp** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:22 pm

Im am 14 years old(I'm turning 15 this year) and I got my ThinkPad R51(which is my first ThinkPad and laptop) on 11-9-04.

Bob Collins · #3 Post by **Bob Collins** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:07 am

38
First Thinkpad: 701C in 1995 (new)
Then a 600X in 2002 (second-hand)
Now my T22 (second-hand)

mattfromomaha · #4 Post by **mattfromomaha** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:11 am

22 years old.

ThinkPad T30...and eyeballing a replacement - maybe X40, but I'd prefer a T4x if it were as sturdy as my T30 or the X40, as they are both bulletproof!

jjackson02 · #5 Post by **jjackson02** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:36 am

I'm 21... but turning 22 in 13 days!

stgreek · #6 Post by **stgreek** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:57 am

24, but been using thinkpads since i was 14 so you could call me relatively old school...

#7 Post by **K. Eng** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:16 am

Just turned 24 about a month ago.

juancferrer · #8 Post by **juancferrer** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:21 pm

17, got my T42 at the start of school 6 months ago

AtmosMan · #9 Post by **AtmosMan** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:57 pm

I'm 19. Bought a Thinkpad T40 20 months ago (June '03.)

#10 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:37 am

my very first thinkpad was a 700C in 1994 or thereabouts..
when wife and i were living aboard my boat..
we had recently returned from summer in connecticut to miami beach when i drove up to an auction in atlanta and bought 14 AST notebooks..
in the process of selling those i took a 700C in as payment for one of the AST Power Exec notebooks..

and i never looked back..

sugo · #11 Post by **sugo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:41 am

I am 24. Bought the first thinkpad t42 in summer 04.

selvan777 · #12 Post by **selvan777** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:38 pm

11 months

leoblob · #13 Post by **leoblob** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:46 pm

... 51!

Bought my 360 new in '94.
Bought my 365x new in '97.

Both still working perfectly and still meeting my needs.

#14 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:18 pm

I'm 17. I'll be 18 in April.

Was given a 350c in 1998, got rid of it in 2000 and instantly regretted it.
Bought a 760ED in 2003, got rid of it in early 2004.
Bought an HP OmniBook 800CT in early 2004, it died a few months later.
Bought my 380ED in November 2004. (for $60.00, instantly paid for itself)
Bought my 760E in December 2004. (for $25.00, I have mixed opinions about the computer)
Recieved my 600E last week and am now looking for a motherboard for it.

MadeInJapan · #15 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:07 am

Turning 45 this month. First ThinkPad was in '97...haven't looked back since. Before that I had a Compaq and before that an Apple...that was in the early to mid 80's.

#16 Post by **JaneL** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:15 pm

I remember when dirt was new which makes me *slightly* younger than Bill and James...

#17 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:20 pm

29 Here.

First Thinkpad, October 2004 and i have been enjoying it daily.

FrankK-F · #18 Post by **FrankK-F** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:02 am

In '86 (that is 1986) .. in my mid 40's .. I got my hand on an early COMPAQ luggable .. probably stretched my arm by a few inches for lugging this 30+ pound "sewing machine" from the office every night .. trying to understand what I might do with this contraption.

A few months later one of my collegues bootlegged an HP Portable (ROM-RAM DOS box) on his corporate credit card, and 'requisitioned" it to continue my learning. This puny laptop put me on the track of a "portable office visionary".

Soon I bought my own HP PortablePLUS systems with all the bells and whistles .. $11,000. BRRR! But never had a desktop on my desk.

In '97 I migrated briefly to a used IBM 755XD .. in '98 I bought my new TP765D .. that needed a few service trips over the years to IBM .. and had excellent experience with IBM ever since.

In 2003, I bought my A31p, and in 2004 got a second A31p.

Of the thousands of hours I spent working on PC's since '86 .. I can state that I spent probably fewer than 20 hours on a desktop .. any desktop.

Finally .. after all these years .. the high-end notebooks deliver respectable performance for the heavy duty apps that support my work.

And I hope that my next notebooks will be IBM ThinkPad models.

Frank K-F

AbsoluteRaleigh · #19 Post by **AbsoluteRaleigh** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:22 pm

I'm 27. Got my 1st TP in the 90s. I have 1 of each now.

asiafish · #20 Post by **asiafish** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:02 pm

I'm 37, and got my first ThinkPad (T20) two-years-ago for law school.

The T20 was still under warranty and after three systemboard replacements, IBM sent me a brand-new T22 as a replacement, which I still have.

18-months-ago bought an X21 with ultrabase, but I only kept it for six months as I switched to the Apple platform and sold the X21 (still have the ultrabase X2 and a near-new battery if anyone is interested).

I also had a 570 for a few months before getting the X21, but sold it to a co-worker as it wasn't enough smaller than the T20 to make up for its sacrifices (the reason I bought the X21).

I'd like to get either a newer T4x (love the 4.5lb weight) as the only non-Apple task that my current T22 won't do is play modern games. I know laptops are not the best for games anyway, but I really dislike desktop computer and change my computing habits to accomodate one.

admsteiner · #21 Post by **admsteiner** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:25 pm

23 years old (24 next march).

Bought my first thinkpad (T42) just as they came out. Currently using it (and loving it) in my first year of law school. I've convinced 3 of my friends to get T42s also...

--adam

asiafish · #22 Post by **asiafish** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:45 pm

Congrats on law school and best of luck. My T22 is all primed and ready for the CA bar, and served well for all those law school notes and exams.

Sasha · #23 Post by **Sasha** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:34 pm

32 years...33 in a coupla months....

And this is my first ThinkPad....had to earn to afford it!!!

ldbobby · #24 Post by **ldbobby** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:52 am

I'm 20, got my first TP (X40) about May last year and will never buy anything else, well, laptop-wise. In dept $2k because of it =D

Torque · #25 Post by **Torque** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:37 pm

Im 25 years old.

This (see signature) is my first Thinkpad. Bought it semtember last year. I'm never buying anything but TP's in the future. This baby is leagues ahead.

jeeva · #26 Post by **jeeva** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:50 pm

I'm 17
Started with an IBM ThinkPad don't know which one, but 120 MB HD and 25 MHz 486 SX and Color Screen.
then Highscreen BlueNote (486 33 MHz)
Compaq LTE Elite 4/50C (486 50 MHz)
Microspot (486 66 MHz)
Apple PowerBook 520 (68040 25 MHz)
Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX (486 75 MHz)
NoName (Pentium 60 MHz)
Targa (Pentium 120 MHz)
IBM ThinkPad 380XD (Pentium 233 MHz MMX)
Compaq Armada 4133T (Pentium 133 MHz)
Toshiba Sattelite 440CDT (Pentium 133 MHz MMX)
Compaq Armata 4150T (Pentium 150 MHz MMX)
again the Toshiba Satelite 440CDT
IBM ThinkPad R51 (Pentium M 1500 MHz MMX SSE(2))

I think that's the whole history.

vincepoy · #27 Post by **vincepoy** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:23 am

I'm 31... Got my first ThinkPad in the early 90s when Texas Instruments TravelMate was still popular.

JHEM · #28 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:20 pm

vincepoy wrote:I'm 31... Got my first ThinkPad in the early 90s when Texas Instruments TravelMate was still popular.

[censored] Vince, where ya' been and where's that employment contract you were going to send me?

Regards,

James

CChoi83 · #29 Post by **CChoi83** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:24 am

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beerak · #30 Post by **beerak** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:16 am

I'm 23

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