The IBM ThinkPad 500 (released June 1993) shrunk the ThinkPad package even further. The 550BJ saw a limited release run in Japanese markets but never saw a successor. While somewhat convenient, the 550BJ was rather unreliable and quite a bit bulkier than other laptops on the market. The ThinkPad 550BJ, released in 1993, incorporated a Canon bubble-jet printer into its chassis. Some of these stuck while others were so gimmicky that they quickly faded into memory. Over the next eight years, IBM used the ThinkPad name to bring several innovations to the business-laptop market. IBM knew it had a hit on its hands, and the floodgates were thrown open. Needless to say, the 700C was a massive success. The 700C offered everything a businessperson could want - a big color display, an excellent keyboard, and a good built-in mouse controller - in a comparatively small and attractive package. The 700C wasn't the first laptop to offer a TrackPoint-style input device, but it was the best up to that time.
IBM THINKPAD X200 AUTO MOUSE CLICK WINDOWS
The tiny nub offered a built-in method for controlling the mouse cursor in the relatively new Windows GUI. Wrapped in a sleek black shell, the ThinkPad 700C was critically and commercially praised and soon became the envy of boardroom executives.Īside from the display, the 700C had another feature that drew attention: the TrackPoint. Most other laptops at the time had monochrome screens attached to ugly and bulky shells. Featuring a (for the time) large 10.4-inch TFT full-color display, the 700C stood head and shoulders above the competition. The tablet featured a 10-inch monochrome STN display with a resolution of 640x480.Įventually released to the public in October 1992, the ThinkPad 700T was an overall flop and soon disappeared from the market altogether, but it did pave the way for one of the biggest successes in IBM history: the ThinkPad 700C.
IBM THINKPAD X200 AUTO MOUSE CLICK PC
Rather, the 700T (announced in April of 1992) was a tablet PC powered by an Intel 386SX/20 CPU, 4 or 8 MB of RAM, and two 10 MB solid state file storage drives. The first device released under the ThinkPad moniker wasn't a traditional laptop. The word "THINK" adorned early IBM mainframes and eventually made its way onto pocket-sized paper notepads. The "ThinkPad" name comes from a slogan coined by IBM employees back in the 1920s.
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