Closed, it looks pretty much like any other laptop manufactured in 1995. To be sure, it’s more compact than most—making it, in the parlance of the day, a subnotebook. But it’s still comically thick, ...

IBM is thinking about bringing back the Butterfly keyboard, which appeared on some of its ThinkPad laptops in the mid-Nineties. The Butterfly keyboard could expand to be wider than the rest of the ...

This is like ASMR for Hackers: restoration specialist [Polymatt] has put together a video of his work restoring a 1995 IBM Thinkpad 701c, the famous butterfly keyboard laptop. It’s an incredible bit ...

An IBM (or, later, Lenovo) ThinkPad is a popular choice in our community. They’re prized for their rugged design, longevity, and good software support. Over the many years that the line has been ...

As I was researching this week’s story on how virtual, touch-screen keyboards may improve to the point where they challenge the dominance of physical keyboards, I got into an interesting side ...