That’s my own 860 in the Wikipedia picture running AIX 4 with an off-the-shelf NTSC camera connected to the onboard video capture port, taken by an attendee at the Vintage Computer Festival pre-COVID. IBM themselves made a line of PowerPC ThinkPads that were actually branded as ThinkPads (they officially ran AIX, Solaris and Windows NT, and there was briefly a really rough OS/2 port), although they did the same thing with the top-of-the-line 860 as they did with the WorkPad, which was sold as and by the RS/6000 division as “not a ThinkPad” even though it’s basically a ThinkPad. In fact, the z50 isn’t the first RISC ThinkPad or even ThinkPad-adjacent device. However, there were a fair number of SPARC laptops primarily from Tadpole-RDI but also some smaller companies, and even a handful of PA-RISC laptops (and if you happen to have an ALPHAbook you’re not using, I’m willing to deal - seriously). Obviously the biggest absolute number of these are Apple devices, because PowerBooks came in 68K and PowerPC flavours (along with iBooks), and Mac laptops are now ARM, I mean, Apple silicon. I should say as further preamble that one of my collector hobbies is picking up non-x86 laptops. Say hello to the RISC ThinkPad that’s not a ThinkPad, the IBM WorkPad z50. But turn it on and it itself announces it’s not a ThinkPad: Well, obviously someone on IBM’s design team wanted you to think so. Pop quiz: what classic brand of laptop is this?īright-red TrackPoint and mouse button trim, classic keyboard font, IBM logo on the top.
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