LGR - The Original IBM Think Pad

LGR

Gotta love "semantic satiation!"

Sarah

Hey that sounds like my Dad's career with IBM as well! We actually have one of the "Think" signs at home, he keeps it in the computer room and I never understood it as a kid haha.

LGR

Thanks so much for the support, and I hope you continue to enjoy!

Clemente d'Angelo

I’m new. I love your videos. Keep going! Greetings from Italy!

Thomas Fuchs

FWIW, eBay has an affiliate program. Idk if that works for entire categories of products or just single listings etc. <a href="https://partnernetwork.ebay.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://partnernetwork.ebay.com</a>

David Rickard

This is mentioned in the Triumph of the Nerds (GREAT documentary). <a href="https://youtu.be/X7bbQW2RLug?t=3m26s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/X7bbQW2RLug?t=3m26s</a>

Eric Siegel

I think I've heard/seen the word "think" so many times that it looks weird now. P.S. I'm typing this on a ThinkPad T430 :)

Sounds like a church!

Peter Metzger

the multimedia page linked above has a .wav of the song too :o

I think my dad had the sheet music somewhere

I watched this in 4K on my 4K monitor while playing Dark Souls 3 on the other monitor.

LGR

Nope. It's a real thing and a piece of history.

LGR

So weeeeiiiird

LGR

I don't have any kind of affiliations to anywhere that sells them!

I have one of these from my bestie. She and her father both worked at IBM. Can confirm that they are indeed real, and they are "just right". :-)

Iron Arse Hands

Definitely getting IBM merchandise for my Dad's birthday this year. He got his start working with punch cards and then later with IBM mainframes.

I would totally buy one of these.. you should affiliate link it :)

Jailyn Dyer

I love your history videos. When I was in third grade I thought I'd put together my two loves - computers and history and be a computer historian. That would have been fun if I could have found a job for it.

Tempus Fugit

I want a Thunk pad.

Gary Leigh

It had flawless handwriting recognition.

Corporate culture needs not only a notepad but also a corporate song! Ever onward I-B-M! <a href="https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans.html</a>

Think! Eat! Sleep! Watch LGR!

Zach LeBlanc

lol, Clint is this a joke?

Like your taste in pens! The Pilot Metro series is great, I am fond of their fountain pens.

Jeff DeWitt

Funny, I'd never heard of these until about three days ago when a coworker sent me a link to a story about these. Wish I could tell him about this video but Friday was his last day.

LGR

You got it!

Steve Lovelace

Just realized that Apple's "Think Different" campaign is a response to IBM's "Think."

avfusion

If you look closely at 1:08, you can see the precursor to the Intel 8088. IBM really was ahead of their time.

Zeke

BAHAHAHA, I saw the notification and went "oooooo" (I'm a Thinkpad whore) and then saw the thumbnail! Got me! Haha, nice one :P

LGR

Ha, yeah by the time I was done recording this I had no idea what "THINK" meant anymore.

LGR

Glad to hear it :D

Lindsay Michelle

What's this, a tech channel talking about non-tech??? Booooo!!!!! Nah, just kidding :P This video is actually really interesting and I enjoy these kinds of videos from you that deviate from your normal thing. (Even though the word "think" has kind of lost some meaning from being mentioned so much here, haha.) And wow, I just saw that you're almost at 6000 dollars per month for Patreon! You've come so far from when you started on here :)

Addison Chernow

Ha! Love it!

LGR

Fank you!

LGR

Aw yeah. Blues Brothers always meets my approval.

JennaKay

Fantastically fun featurette!

LGR

Awesome, glad to have shared something new!

LGR

Quite welcome, it's a great historical tidbit.

Oh, wow. As a ThinkPad guy, this is all kinds of awesome. Thank you for making it.

Avery G

This is immediately what I thought of when I was watching the video, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s</a>

PureBlueOctopus

That's crazy, never heard about that!