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Submission + - The short life and lasting legacy of IBM's butterfly ThinkPad (fastcompany.com)

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harrymcc writes: As part of Fast Company’s 1995 week, I wrote about IBM’s ThinkPad 701, the famous model with an expanding “butterfly” keyboard. By putting full-sized keys in a subnotebook-sized laptop, it solved one of mobile computing’s biggest problems. IBM discontinued it before the end of the year, and neither it nor anyone else ever made anything similar again. And yet it remains amazing.
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