10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
12:52 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Interestingly enough there was a thread recently on comp.sys.ibm.ps2 re the
collectiveity of PS2 s. Most mentioned the 700. Some quotes :
"The Thinkpad 710T (IBMs first Trackpad). I have one - without the 5MB
TP-File. There were two different model-lines out: one has a 2.5" IDE HD,
the other has a 5,10 or 20MB PCMCIA Solid State disk. The SSD-models have a
different planar and cannot be converted into IDE-models. I have a
SSD-model (2523-AY9) but no TP-Filecard. Too bad."
" 9552 Thinkpad 700 C, one of the last microchannel Thinkpads"
ciao larry
Was this one of the ones from about '92? If
it's the one I'm thinking of,
it would be the first with the 'pencil' pointer in the keyboard. For all I
know, the first built in pointer (I'd not seen any prior to this). Of
course I really remember it running AIX and OS/2 at the same time (I hate
AIX, but sure wish they had released that product).
That must be it. The TP700 was the first with the TrackPoint (eraser
head).
The first DOS laptop with a pointing device was the GRiD 1550SX, and it
had an isopoint (tootsie-roll) similar to the Outbound Mac-clone.
-- Doug
lwalker(a)interlog.com