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Ruined 1993 Thinkpad tablet lovingly restored [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2024-11-18

Tinkerer and skill-collector polymatt rescued and restored a shattered 1993 Thinkpad 730T tablet. The device's journey from ruin to revival is wonderful indeed.

After picking this thing up at VCF Southwest this past year, I didn't know what I was getting into, but I knew it wasn't going to be easy. This is one of the first IBM machines to bear the ThinkPad name. It's a 730T 486 tablet computer from 1993 – and it needs a lot of work…

What a handsome device that tablet is. Not one on eBay, either!

Previously:

• Restored Vermeer uncovers cherub, penis

• Watch a 100-year-old book deconstructed and restored

• Making hard candy on a restored Victorian machine

• Restoring 100-year-old Max Fleischer cartoons

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