Tag Archives: IBM

What’s in the Attic …

Most homes in Oklahoma don’t have basements. Because of the water table, combined with the hard red clay found in the ground here, basements are an exorbitant luxury. In almost 40 years of living here, I’ve only been in two … Continue reading

The Original IBM ThinkPad was a Paper Notepad

I love when I find out fun facts about items I had up to that point not really considered. I have owned and worked on IBM ThinkPads for years and never once thought about their origins. Yesterday I was doing … Continue reading

IBM Correcting Selectric II Typewriter

While walking around work, I came across this 1973 beauty. It is an IBM Correcting Selectric II. Not sure if it still works or not, but still takes me back to the days in school having to work on reports … Continue reading

5MB IBM hard disk drive from 1956

5 MB is not much. It is amazing i have a drive that is 5 times that capacity on my keychain. IBM 350 disk storage unit [via] BoingBoing

IBM Commercial with “Charlie Chaplin” and Fatty Arbuckle for iPad

In the 1980s nothing was cooler then using silent era movie characters to sell high tech gadgets. They ran these ads for a while so they must have been successful. Which is surprising since the Fatty Arbuckle iPad ads didn’t … Continue reading