Thinkpad IBM Laptop Case
Once upon a time, laptops and other computer hardware often came with a fancy leather case for protection. That’s not really the case anymore, but it was in the golden era of the IBM ThinkPad....
View ArticleThinkPad X1 Carbon Turned USB Device Through Relentless Digging
In what’s perhaps one of the most impressive laptop reverse engineering posts in recent memory, [Andrey Konovalov] brings us an incredibly detailed story of how he’s discovered and successfully enabled...
View ArticlePrinting a Replacement Case for the ThinkPad 701c
Even among ThinkPads, which are nearly universally loved by hardware hackers and Linux tinkerers alike, the 701c is a particularly rare and desirable machine. Best known for it’s “butterfly” slide out...
View ArticleGive Your Thinkpad X1 Nano An Internal USB Port
How hard could it be to add an extra USB port inside your laptop? As [Joshua Stein] shows, it can be decently hard, but you will have fun along the way. His journey involves a Thinkpad X1 Nano, and his...
View ArticleRunning Stock MS-DOS on a Modern ThinkPad
It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back in 1994. That...
View ArticleThinkpad 13 Gets NVMe Support With Three Jumpers
Hardware restrictions can be unreasonable, and at times, it can be downright puzzling just how arbitrary they are. Such is the case with the Lenovo ThinkPad 13 — it’s got a M.2 M-key socket, yet...
View ArticleRuined 1993 ThinkPad Tablet Brought Back From The Brink
Collecting retrocomputers is fun, especially when you find fully-functional examples that you can plug in, switch on, and start playing with. Meanwhile, others prefer to find the damaged examples and...
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