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Why did IBM fail at PCs?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:00:33 +0000

If you ask why did IBM fail, I assume you mean why did IBM ultimately fail in the personal computer market. IBM is still in business, after all. But its exit from the PC market after 24 years, including a

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The IBM PS/1 (or IBM PS1)

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:00:30 +0000

The IBM PS/1, sometimes called the IBM PS1, was a line of 1990s personal computer systems, not to be confused with the Sony Playstation video game console that’s also often called the PS1. The PS/1 was IBM’s second attempt at a

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Lock the function keys on a Lenovo Thinkpad

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:00:24 +0000

Depending on your age and experience with computers, you may need to find you need to lock the function keys on a Lenovo Thinkpad. Or you may find the opposite, that you need to disable the function keys on a

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The missing Lenovo Thinkpad scroll lock key

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:00:54 +0000

One of my coworkers accidentally enabled scroll lock on a Lenovo Thinkpad L440 the other day, which is bad news when you do it accidentally and can’t find the missing Thinkpad scroll lock key. Where Lenovo hides the scroll lock

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How to add a second SSD to a laptop optical bay

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:31:56 +0000

A longtime reader asked me recently about putting an SSD into a laptop optical bay. The idea has crossed my mind–the extra storage is increasingly more useful than the optical drive as time wears on. Thinkpad warriors have been doing

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Lenovo and IBM look back at IBM’s PC exit

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:42:40 +0000

The Register reports that Lenovo is gloating over its purchase of IBM’s PC division and its turnaround efforts, while IBM doesn’t regret pulling out, at all, even going so far as to call the PC dead. Who’s right? Lenovo. Though

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Slipstream drivers into Windows XP

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:40:08 +0000

For about a month after a new version of Windows is released, it supports just about any hardware you’re likely to throw at it. And after that, it’s not quite that easy. And once the version is end of life,

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Upgrade and repair diary: IBM Thinkpad T30

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:12:58 +0000

I picked up an IBM Thinkpad T30 this week. People ask me occasionally to keep an eye out for an inexpensive used laptop, and Thinkpads from 2005 or earlier are a good choice because they’re generally well built, easy to

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Laptop or desktop?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:14:38 +0000

All this talk today about cheap notebooks like the Sotec 3120x begs another question: Who should buy one?

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Cheap laptops from Sotec

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 04:01:43 +0000

David Huff e-mailed me this morning about a Sotec 3120X laptop that sells at Office Depot, Wal-Mart, Sam's, Bestbuy.com, and possibly other places, for around $900 and asked if I knew anything about it.

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