It's black. It runs AIX. It's IBM. Is it a ThinkPad? No!

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It's black. It runs AIX. It's IBM. Is it a ThinkPad? No!

#1 Post by ThinkRob » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:18 pm

So, apparently these exist:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320956713384

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Re: It's black. It runs AIX. It's IBM. Is it a ThinkPad? No!

#2 Post by AGoodSolution » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:04 am

ThinkRob wrote:So, apparently these exist:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320956713384

You learn something new every day...

Holy hell, I feel like someone who just learned they were adopted and their original family looks so much like them.

I want one of those N40's 1

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Re: It's black. It runs AIX. It's IBM. Is it a ThinkPad? No!

#3 Post by gdrunk » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:23 am

Wow..

Nothing more I can say really. What an incredible piece of kit. Its like IBM took a look at a server one day and thought "hey, I bet we can make that into a laptop!"

I know there was the 800 series which has PowerPC architecture and SCSI drives, but I didn't realise they had designed others as well. Great find!
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Re: It's black. It runs AIX. It's IBM. Is it a ThinkPad? No!

#4 Post by kittyjessica » Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:02 pm

As much as I'd love one of these, I'm not too sure if it could live with my other IBM engineered equipment, not due to it not being a thinkpad, but due to that fact that it was developed by tadpole and thusly will always in my mind have more to do with tadpole's SPARC and Alpha books, very much like the Sun Ultra 30 that Sun branded a while back.

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