Anyone who owns one of these is cringing when he bends the hinges. This era of thinkpad was very early in their understanding of how to make a good, hinged bento box notebook and the metal hinges are very tight and strong but they're screwed into extremely brittle ABS plastic - either in the lid or the base. Everytime you open one now, there is a 50/50 chance something is going to, almost irrepairably break inside. I am in the middle of trying to preserve some of these but it's a tough job. Also the outside of the 700c was an early adopter of the rubberised coating which, more often than not after 30 years, as started to go extremely sticky.
The only thing this has in common with its modern descendants is the trackpoint and the high price tag. What happened to the legendary keyboard and durability? Respect to Naitoh-san.
I had one of the first ones of these in the UK. The screen was truly stunning 640 x 480 with incredible viewing angles and bright. but the hinge was incredibly weak and cracked the plastic it was attached to.. There was also battery management issues nickel metal hydride batteries would get hot every time it was plugged in.. The specs were 486 SX 4 MB of RAM 120 MB hard drive There was also a coprocessor socket which could be upgraded to DX specs. At that time there were 486 66 laptops made by AJP but their screens were passive matrix colour totally washed out with very narrow viewing angles and virtually unusable.. IBM was a name to be reckoned with then.... Now it is gone woke.. And as we all know everything woke is broke...
@@jlau7144 I would rate it in good condition. It powers on but the screen display is out. Display works via VGA cable. Operating system is dos 3.1 No cracks, keys work fine. It has a hand written model number which I read was on the prototype models released to businesses before the public.
Dear IBM, please buy the Thinkpad back
Anyone who owns one of these is cringing when he bends the hinges. This era of thinkpad was very early in their understanding of how to make a good, hinged bento box notebook and the metal hinges are very tight and strong but they're screwed into extremely brittle ABS plastic - either in the lid or the base. Everytime you open one now, there is a 50/50 chance something is going to, almost irrepairably break inside. I am in the middle of trying to preserve some of these but it's a tough job.
Also the outside of the 700c was an early adopter of the rubberised coating which, more often than not after 30 years, as started to go extremely sticky.
The only thing this has in common with its modern descendants is the trackpoint and the high price tag. What happened to the legendary keyboard and durability? Respect to Naitoh-san.
I had one of the first ones of these in the UK. The screen was truly stunning 640 x 480 with incredible viewing angles and bright. but the hinge was incredibly weak and cracked the plastic it was attached to.. There was also battery management issues nickel metal hydride batteries would get hot every time it was plugged in.. The specs were 486 SX 4 MB of RAM 120 MB hard drive There was also a coprocessor socket which could be upgraded to DX specs. At that time there were 486 66 laptops made by AJP but their screens were passive matrix colour totally washed out with very narrow viewing angles and virtually unusable.. IBM was a name to be reckoned with then.... Now it is gone woke.. And as we all know everything woke is broke...
I have a 700c ps/2 anyone know the value of something like this?
What condition is it in?
@@jlau7144 I would rate it in good condition. It powers on but the screen display is out. Display works via VGA cable. Operating system is dos 3.1 No cracks, keys work fine. It has a hand written model number which I read was on the prototype models released to businesses before the public.
This the one that had ssd?
no it had probably some kind of old HHD
No, that was the 700T model, which was a monochrome pen tablet. Ultra-rare these days.