IBM Thinkpad 701C, 1994
On this 57th day of the
year 2026
In the same vain attempt as Neptune and Artemis, I attempted to remove Psyche's battery; however because I lack a T1 hex bit, I was unable to free the swolen NiCads from their bay. Fortunately, the HDD was a different story, and this can be freed and replaced at any moment. I am looking into a way to get some kind of IDE to USB dock and/or adapter in order to back up the drive.
On this 34th day of the
year 2026
This has got to be one of the oldest laptops I own, and also the rarest. "Project Butterfly", as it is known by some, is a very short-lived answer to the outcry for bigger keyboards on small 9" netbooks being produced at the time. Competitors opted to just make a bigger laptop with the same sized screen, battery, and internals, and IBM followed suit the year after. It's not often that such a display of engineering and innovation makes its way to the hands of consumers, and I am very glad that it got into my hands; even if it has seen better days. It still has the original IDE HDD running Windows 3.11 for WorkGroups, as well as the myriad of bundled in software, to include an entertaining "interactive" advertisement for the thing you already bought. I will be keeping the HDD in a static bag and somewhere dark, cool, and dry until such time that I can image everything on it into an .ISO file.
My plans for Psyche include: