{"id":2325,"date":"2012-10-16T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2012-10-16T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:48:39","slug":"20-years-of-thankpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/20-years-of-thankpad\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of ThankPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 years of Thinkpad, free image graphics software and finding good cheap batteries for your camera..all thanks to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avg.com.au\/techtuneup\" target=\"_blank\"> AVG PC Tune-up<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20years of the Thinkpad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ThinkPad has just celebrated it\u2019s 20th birthday.  Back in 1992, portable computers were far from what we know now but they did exist and back then IBM was leading the way with the Thinkpad.<\/p>\n<p>The ThankPad 700c was the industry\u2019s first notebook computer to feature a thin transistor display and two years later the thinkpad was the first notepad to have a built in CD ROM drive.<\/p>\n<p>By the year 2000, 10 million thinkpads had been sold and by 2010 sales were at 60 million units, and they are still going today with the latest thinkpad tablet 2 by Lenovo, designed for the new Windows 8 operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more fun facts about the history of these iconic computers at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lenovo.com\/news\/20-fun-facts-about-the-thinkpad\">http:\/\/blog.lenovo.com\/news\/20-fun-facts-about-the-thinkpad<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/tbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lenovo-Milestone-Infographic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-906 aligncenter\" title=\"Lenovo Milestone Infographic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/tbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lenovo-Milestone-Infographic-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years of Thinkpad, free image graphics software and finding good cheap batteries for your camera..all thanks to AVG PC Tune-up. 20years of the Thinkpad The ThinkPad has just celebrated it\u2019s 20th birthday. Back in 1992, portable computers were far from what we know now but they did exist and back then IBM was leading the way with the Thinkpad.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/20-years-of-thankpad\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,300,298],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ibm","tag-lenovo","tag-thinkpad"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>20 Years of ThankPad - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/20-years-of-thankpad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"20 Years of ThankPad - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"20 years of Thinkpad, free image graphics software and finding good cheap batteries for your camera..all thanks to AVG PC Tune-up. 20years of the Thinkpad The ThinkPad has just celebrated it\u2019s 20th birthday. 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