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A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by coldpie »

mdavid626 wrote: post #40
coldpie wrote: post #32

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You don't have to put up with the Internet like that. Install uBlock Origin, turn off media autoplay in your browser settings ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay ), and consider installing NoScript.

iPhone Chrome?

There are many ad blocking solutions for iOS, though I don't have the knowledge to recommend one myself.

Hopefully one day, Europe will force Apple to let users install better web browsers than Safari.

Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by SoftTalker »

ulfw wrote: post #9
SoftTalker wrote: post #5

Ad took over the screen and I couldn’t get out. Had to kill the browser. Not reading sites that are that inconsiderate.

God invented ad blockers for a reason. I have had no idea what you were even talking about.

Beside the point. That website is abusive and not worth anyone's time.

Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by lproven »

jgrahamc wrote: post #26
lproven wrote: post #24

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I was riveted by your account, because I own one and I'd love to get it working again.

Do it! To be fair, it was a ton of work to get it working again but I'm happy-ish with the result.

Not sure I have the skills, TBH, but I believe you. :-)

Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by nickynickell »

Coincidentally, I bought one of these recently and it was delivered this morning. Including the MultiPort II port replicator and floppy drive. Boots and runs fine (sans some unhappy memory locations and dead CMOS). Need to clone the disk so I can poke around on the stuff still on it. It's got NetWare on it, excel, word, powerpoint, netscape navigator, and mosaic. Somewhat spooked about spinning it up too many times.

The keyboard mechanism is much more satisfying than I expected. Jealous of anyone who got to use one when they were new.

Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by mediumsmart »

coldpie wrote: post #41
mdavid626 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iPhone Chrome?

There are many ad blocking solutions for iOS, though I don't have the knowledge to recommend one myself. Hopefully one day, Europe will force Apple to let users install better web browsers than Safari.

Reader mode works on that page and you can have a look at Orion for a zero telemetry browser.

https://kagi.com/orion/

I now looked at the page with Safari, shows how good Orion is.

Re: A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995

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Post by mdavid626 »

mediumsmart wrote: post #47
coldpie wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many ad blocking solutions for iOS, though I don't have the knowledge to recommend one myself. Hopefully one day, Europe will force Apple to let users install better web browsers than Safari.

Reader mode works on that page and you can have a look at Orion for a zero telemetry browser. https://kagi.com/orion/ I now looked at the page with Safari, shows how good Orion is.

Sure, but this doesn't support getting stored passwords from Chrome (Google account). It's not worth the hassle.
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