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Why IBM’s Amazing ‘Sliding Keyboard’ ThinkPad 701 Never Survived Past 1995

Why IBM’s Amazing ‘Sliding Keyboard’ ThinkPad 701 Never Survived Past 1995

Fast Company’s tech editor Harry McCracken (also harrymccSlashdot reader #1,641,347) writes: As part of Fast Company’s “1995 week“, I wrote about IBM’s ThinkPad 701, the famous model with an expanding “butterfly” keyboard [which could be stretched from 9.7-inches to 11.5 inches]. By putting full-sized keys in a subnotebook-sized laptop, it solved one of mobile computing’s biggest problems. IBM discontinued it …

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Texas Songwriter Who Survived July 4 Flood Says More Help Is Needed

Texas Songwriter Who Survived July 4 Flood Says More Help Is Needed

Julia Hatfield was just one of the residents of the Blue Oak RV Park along the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, when the devastating and deadly flash flood of July 4 decimated the park. Even now, she says, her neighbors are still a long way to rebuilding — and recovering. “This community is going to need so much help,” Hatfield, …

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