Defective '5,000,000mAh' power bank
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On the occasion of ThinkPad's 25th birthday, we recall some of IBM's best known creations: from the Selectric typewriter to the IBM PC to the iconic laptop brand acquired by Lenovo in 2005.
The lightweight, for the time, IBM PC Convertible can be considered to be IBM's first laptop.
Released in 1986 the machine used a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor and came with up to 256KB of RAM, expandable to 640KB.
It came with a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD screen and twin 720KB 3.5-inch floppy disk drives.
In total the machine weighed less than 13 pounds or 6kg, thanks in part to its use of the latest surface mount technology to allow more components to be packed into a smaller area.
Caption by: Nick Heath
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