Among its quirky siblings, the ThinkPad 240 was perhaps the most "normal" of IBM's subnotebook models in the late 1990s but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to repair.

Sources:
ThinkWiki 240 page: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Catego...
"IBM's 3Pound ThinkPad," PC Magazine, July 1999.
"A Bumper Crop Of Notebook PCs," Computerworld, November 15, 1999.
"Connect Anywhere," PC Magazine, August 1999.

00:00 Introduction
00:27 A pair of broken laptops
02:38 Teardown
06:04 Damaged USB port
08:45 Plastics and display repair
10:50 OK fine, I'll install Windows 98 this time
14:08 Up and running
15:08 passport.mid rules!!!
16:33 Why didn't anyone buy these?

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