| How to use this Site? When you click on " just klick on the cute triangles to toggle the state. If you expand all sections it's easy to print the whole website. The IBM Thinkpad 701 This is a non official fanpage for the IBM Thinkpad 701C and 701CS aka Butterfly, you can find some background informations, interesting facts and detailed installation instructions for your favourite Operatingsystem and some tools in the download section of this page.
An IBM researcher, while putting together a puzzle with his daughter, had been struck by an extraordinary inspiration: separate the keyboard in two joint blocks that would expand and withdraw when you open and close the display. The ThinkPad 701 keyboard represented a major shift in technology by enabling a standard-sized keyboard to be incorporated into a small notebook for more comfortable typing... the Thinkpad 701 was "born" March 27. 1995, and built until Jun 28. 1996  The IF product design award 1996 The artwork (MoMa )The ThinkPad 701 series was chosen to the permanent collection of the MoMa (Museum of Modern Art / New York), a shortage of the compromise is one of the reason why this product has fascinated the MoMa. The movie starThe (not fancy at all) official IBM announcementThe Mosquito - the homage to the 701cThe Mosquito is a shrinked (65%) replica of the Thinkpad 701 and was built as a giveaway in 2002 to celebrate the 10th aniversary of the Thinkpad product line. the official IBM Webpage for the Thinkpad 701C/CS today everything you need to know about the 701 (and more) A first LookStandard hotkeysIf you don't know where you can find the Fn Key open the "A first Look" Section
Undocumented hotkeysTechnical informations about the 701 modelsa computer without a Operatingsystem (OS) is quite useless - here are the systems which have been tested by other 701 lovers (including lots of installaton hints or "walkthroughs" BeOSBSDDOSLinuxOS/2WindowsYou can download the Drivers for DOS, OS/2 and Windows from the IBM Device Drivers Matrix the most efficient way to speed up your thinkpad is to install a fast operating system - however if you're fixed to the Operating System, because the application you are using is just availible for this one.. Harddrives (HDD)CPU UpgradeMemory (RAM)BatteryThinkpad dealersYou can download the Hardware Service Manual from the IBM site you can find Drivers and Bios updates at the IBM USA - site. Drivers are also shiped with your OS.
Golden Thinkpad linksLife is hard, even with a Thinkpad 701...Please Read:  - or short form: I'm not responsible for anything on this site ;-)
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