Modern mobo/component upgrades for old IBM Thinkpads

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 12:35:37 MST 2021


This kind of stuff makes me really happy.


On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:45 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I know many of you have expressed your love of Thinkpads over the years,
> particularly back in the days when IBM still made them with quality.  I
> came across this where there's a crowdfunding project to make complete
> drop-in replacement mobo's for the most loved models with fully modern
> processors, i/o ports, drives, and everything.  Even recommendations for
> replacing the displays with modern 4k equivalents, though some require cnc
> milling to open up the space.
>
> Pretty nifty stuff actually, got me thinking some about this even...
>
> https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowdfunding/
>
> -mb
>
>
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Stephen
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