[jonbaer]

Does no one remember the Butterfly keyboard on the 701? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Butterfly_keyboar...

[joezydeco]

IBM did some creative (and useful!) things with the early Thinkpads. Remember the 755CD/V? You could pull the backlight off the LCD and strap the laptop to an overhead projector.

http://thinkwiki.de/images/0/07/755cdv-overhead.jpg

[iliis]

Awesome, I would never have tought that this is/was an actual product! We tried to do something like this as teenagers with an old (normal) LCD, but some ribbon-cables were in the way. Still, there are people building projectors themselves using that method.

[joezydeco]

I have one. It's pretty simple in practice, although the LCD fades as it heats up from the projector's light.

[agumonkey]

Never had the pleasure to own or use one. My best was this : http://mla-s1-p.mlstatic.com/mouse-ibm-ps2-ball-scroll-point...

Fond memories.

[acomjean]

I had one once upon a time.... The trackpoint on a mouse was truly great.

[agumonkey]

I got the IBM keyboard that came with it on the IBM 300GL desktop. It's not a model M but it was pretty nifty anyway.

[chiph]

I saw one at the IBM PC outlet in Morrisville (now closed, it was just outside RTP in NC) and almost bought it. But then realized that it had a 486SX CPU and was woefully underpowered for what I needed. Super cool design.