Article 6434D The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of

The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of

by
Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#6434D)

Say hello to the RISC ThinkPad that's not a ThinkPad, the IBM WorkPad z50.

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Let's say you went to CompUSA, or, I dunno, Fry's, or Circuit City, in mid-1999. Why, you might pick up an Ethernet hub and a BeOS advanced topics book, and marvel at this lithe little laptop IBM was selling for US$999 ($1780 in today's dollars) MSRP. It had all the ThinkPad design cues and a surprisingly luxurious 95% keyboard, plus that frisson-inducing bright red mouse stick. And you might say, I want this, and I'm going to take it home.

I want one of these so very bad - but like so many things classic computing, eBay prices have gone batshit insane, making it very, very hard to justify.

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