The ThinkPad 701 was 9.7” wide, yet its keyboard magically expanded to a comfy 11.5”. How could anything so ingenious go away ...

Hill started at IBM in 1985 and spent ten years working as an industrial designer on non-ThinkPad projects, including the ...

Nearly 30 years later, global technology editor Harry McCracken revisited this icon for Fast Company's "1995 Week," offering a deep look not just at the laptop's ...

But a top-of-the-line ThinkPad 701C originally shipped with a 10.4 inch, 640 x 480 pixel, 65K color TFT display, a 75 MHz Intel DX4 processor up to 40 MB of RAM and up to a 720MB of hard drive.

IBM's ThinkPad 701 was once 9.7 inches wide, but its butterfly structure allowed it to house a full-sized 11.5-inch keyboard. - GIGAZINE Jul 22, 2025 08:00:00 ...

IBM introduced the keyboard in March 1995 with the ThinkPad 701C, and the device now is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But the butterfly keyboard didn't last long.

IBM introduced the keyboard in March 1995 with the ThinkPad 701C, and the device now is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But the butterfly keyboard didn't last long.

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 incredi… ...

To avoid that, IBM developed the butterfly design, creating what was literally an out-of-the-box keyboard experience. Then displays changed.

Cruising the ibm web site I found out that IBM has taken the thinkpad keyboard with ultranav and put it in a desktop USB keyboard. Description seems to say it only works with IBM products.

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 b… ...

IBM is thinking about bringing back the Butterfly keyboard, which appeared on some of its ThinkPad laptops in the mid-Nineties. The Butterfly keyboard ...