Step into the past. A small review of the IBM ThinkPad 380ED
Recently, helping a friend to flash a computer airbag on his car, he noticed in his garage a stack of old laptops. As it turned out, these laptops were presented to him by some old American neighbor. A friend said that he was going to throw out this “old stuff,” and I decided to pick them up for myself. So I got seven vintage laptops.
There were no memory modules and hard drives in laptops, but the two laptops were completely intact. For one of them on ebay.com for $ 10 I purchased a charger. Notebook IBM ThinkPad 380ED.
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Review of this notebook on the cut.
(A lot of pictures)
This laptop weighs 3.2 kg. Made of very high quality hard plastic. The cover of the laptop keeps on two snaps:
On the right side of the notebook there is a headphone jack, microphone jack, volume control, floppy and cd-rom:
On the left is the power button and two PCMCIA slots:
On the back are the PS2 connector, power connector, monitor VGA, parallel port for the printer, and a 9-pin 16550 COM port:
On the bottom of the laptop there are two connectors for the docking station and a battery. You may also notice a small reset button:
Open the lid. In the middle of the keyboard we see the trackpoint. Touchpad is missing:
On the right side of the monitor is a slider to adjust the brightness:
So, everything is connected and here the first start gives us an error:
Further we see a screen with a request to enter a date:
After that, the laptop restarts and gives an error again and asks to enter a date. I solved the problem by pulling out the BIOS battery. Another reboot and Windows 95 welcome window:
System properties:
48MB RAM
Intel Pentium MMX 167MHz processor
Hard drive almost 3Gb
Start menu:
Control Panel:
Internet Explorer version 5.5:
Acrobat Reader 5.0:
Once upon a time I had an old first Pentium on which I learned to program on QuickBASIC. For some reason, the first thought that came to mind after the launch of this laptop was the idea to try QuickBASIC:
In the pile of junk I found an old PCMCIA card modem:
I tried to set up a dial-up modem for a very long time, but unfortunately nothing happened. A google search issued to NetZero, which offered 10 hours of free internet access. In order to succeed, NetZero offered to download a dialer from their site that didn’t want to be installed on Windows 95:
Then I created a dial-up connection manually and I managed to connect. Opening the browser, I saw the following:
I viciously redirected to their website and offered to download the dialer again. After tormenting the hour, I quit this venture and sat down to hunt in Prince of Persia:
When you hold this device in your hands, you feel how well it is made. Comparing with my current Lenovo G550, I realized with regret that in the distant 1997 laptops were much better. I am very glad that I didn’t give my friend to throw out this wonderful laptop and could temporarily return 14 years ago and experience a lot of positive emotions.
There were no memory modules and hard drives in laptops, but the two laptops were completely intact. For one of them on ebay.com for $ 10 I purchased a charger. Notebook IBM ThinkPad 380ED.
')
Review of this notebook on the cut.
(A lot of pictures)
This laptop weighs 3.2 kg. Made of very high quality hard plastic. The cover of the laptop keeps on two snaps:
On the right side of the notebook there is a headphone jack, microphone jack, volume control, floppy and cd-rom:
On the left is the power button and two PCMCIA slots:
On the back are the PS2 connector, power connector, monitor VGA, parallel port for the printer, and a 9-pin 16550 COM port:
On the bottom of the laptop there are two connectors for the docking station and a battery. You may also notice a small reset button:
Open the lid. In the middle of the keyboard we see the trackpoint. Touchpad is missing:
On the right side of the monitor is a slider to adjust the brightness:
So, everything is connected and here the first start gives us an error:
Further we see a screen with a request to enter a date:
After that, the laptop restarts and gives an error again and asks to enter a date. I solved the problem by pulling out the BIOS battery. Another reboot and Windows 95 welcome window:
System properties:
48MB RAM
Intel Pentium MMX 167MHz processor
Hard drive almost 3Gb
Start menu:
Control Panel:
Internet Explorer version 5.5:
Acrobat Reader 5.0:
Once upon a time I had an old first Pentium on which I learned to program on QuickBASIC. For some reason, the first thought that came to mind after the launch of this laptop was the idea to try QuickBASIC:
In the pile of junk I found an old PCMCIA card modem:
I tried to set up a dial-up modem for a very long time, but unfortunately nothing happened. A google search issued to NetZero, which offered 10 hours of free internet access. In order to succeed, NetZero offered to download a dialer from their site that didn’t want to be installed on Windows 95:
Then I created a dial-up connection manually and I managed to connect. Opening the browser, I saw the following:
I viciously redirected to their website and offered to download the dialer again. After tormenting the hour, I quit this venture and sat down to hunt in Prince of Persia:
When you hold this device in your hands, you feel how well it is made. Comparing with my current Lenovo G550, I realized with regret that in the distant 1997 laptops were much better. I am very glad that I didn’t give my friend to throw out this wonderful laptop and could temporarily return 14 years ago and experience a lot of positive emotions.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/396591/
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