IBM 700 Laptop Significance?

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Wed Jun 10 19:52:34 1998

> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > 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).
 
 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
>
> 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
>
>
>
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