$6,500 IBM Thinkpads From 1997! They're Melting...

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Today we're cleaning up and using a pair of IBM Thinkpad 765D laptops. They're from 1997 and were a hefty $6,500 USD each at the time! But they've developed a problem... the rubberised casing has started to melt! Join me as we fix up these cheap old notebooks from 25 years ago :) #IBM #Thinkpad #brilliant
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System specifications:
IBM Thinkpad 765D
166MHz Intel Pentium with MMX
64MB Ram
13.3" XGA TFT 1024x768 colour display
3 & 5GB Hard Disks
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[@psivewri]

Big thanks to Brilliant for sponsoring this video :) I also hope you enjoy this video! brilliant.org/PSIVEWRI

[@Windows.]

What usb do you use? And if you use Time Machine on mac what would you recommend?

[@AM562]

On some older monster Beats by Dre headphones, I’ve used dryer sheets to get off the sticky rubber coating but seeing as those are black and white leave some white marks that’s just a warning if you try my way I haven’t only watched about halfway through the video though at this point.

[@Begadgets]

Please do more Car fixing ... I want to know how to fix my car using Eucalyptus spray 😁😁

[@richardkonsky]

M and N could mean morning and night

[@Mizai]

lame for accepting sponsors are you that desperate for money in sacrifice of viewer experience

[@cptcrogge]

"Did you delete all company files?" "No worries, I put them in the recycle bin" "Great!" :D

[@nasir_w]

“Yeah! The trash PC will come to take it anyways!”

[@Forrest_O.]

PC’s recycle their own files

[@samholdsworth420]

You need to empty the recycle bin man

[@6QG2P9X77W]

@@samholdsworth420 sarcasm.........?

[@samholdsworth420]

@@6QG2P9X77W life hack

[@connor211]

I see they have sticky keys enabled

[@UltraCenterHQ]

Lmao

[@dilianvt]

Oh! Ok you got me! 😂

[@guycha0s380]

Mine rn

[@youtubeairways8646]

Ba-dum-tss

[@maxgood42]

So like if I use eucalyptus oil I can spam the shift key when running in GTA without interruptions ?

[@3lectr1c]

These ThinkPads have a standby NiMH battery that allows sleep-swapping batteries inside the keyboard assembly. This battery WILL leak and kill the keyboard if it isn’t removed. You should really get that battery out of both units if you want them to stay working. I really enjoyed the video!

[@psivewri]

Good to know, I'll have to sus that out sometime soon!

[@h-aandle]

@@psivewri hi

[@3lectr1c]

@@psivewri awesome! Those batteries unfortunately ended up in a ton of laptops from that time. Dells, Toshibas, Compaqs, VAIOs, Apples and more. They’re beginning to become a real pain. Luckily they went out of use by around 2004.

[@kiki6713]

@@psivewri These batteries are probably already dead and you're running on borrowed time ;) just a heads-up: the palmrest is tricky to get off; be careful not to use too much pressure or it might bend and not sit flush after reinstalling. The first symptoms of a leaked battery are dead/intermittent working keyboard and TrackPoint buttons and crackly/dead right speaker. They can run just fine without the standby battery btw. Some more info for ya: Extra BIOS settings in the "Test" tab: Ctrl + A - additional options, such as a looptest Ctrl + K - keyboard test (works only after pressing Ctrl + A first) Ctrl + D - CMOS editor (forgot if it was to be pressed in the Test tab, or not... and some more info: - Use the IBM Fuel app to change the LCD battery display method (percentage/estimated time left) - the hard drives can be extracted from their caddies with relative ease - but be wary of the HDD limit; - if you ever want to archive the hard drives, some common 44pin adapters might not cut it - these hard drives require an additional +5V signal (pin 43 on the 44-pin connector) - the 765's Mwave sucks for gaming - 760/765: the keyboard latches, the rubber/plastic "bar" behind the screen (with 2 LEDs) and the PCMCIA slot buttons are notorious for being brittle and breaking + dust gets into the speaker slider and creates cracking noises, beware; - 380/385: they don't like any IDE->SD adapters. You might have more luck with a IDE->CF adapter though. And be ultra-careful with the keyboard & HDD ribbons; - if you do enough digging you can upgrade the screens for all of those systems, BUT look up IBM's reference guide if you want to. The graphics chipsets are the biggest problem here; that 380 can be upgraded, but only with a screen that came with a laptop with the same graphics chipset; - you can get original recovery media for those laptops - even ones with the Select-a-System option (so WFW 3.11 + PC DOS + OS/2) online, but most of vintage Thinkpadders are incredibly secretive and don't want to share the media. I think I have some for the 760 and 380 series somewhere. These are lovely and durable machines. One I bought (760EL) was beat to hell, but had WinXP installed and chugged along! If you ever find a docking station (especially the one with PCI/ISA slots), you can have truly one of the most amazing machines to ever come out from the 90s.

[@3lectr1c]

@@kiki6713 the 38x machines don’t have these, right? I’ve got a 385XD…

[@brandonupchurch7628]

Seeing the worn N and M keys reminds me of working at a loan servicer that was using a software from First Data that was originally meant for credit cards, their graphical front end didn't pull all the information we needed for all occasions so some times we had to go straight into this software, that was probably designed in the late 70s or 80s, I think it was to find the regular payment amount on accounts that were paid ahead, I had to type the loan number, then hit f5, the type "nm cl1" to get to the screen where I could find the fixed payment amount, and then you'd have to do that again for each individual loan and it was always the customers with tons of loans that needed this information.

[@brandonupchurch7628]

@@ahoyrobi I don't know what the actual software was, they just referred to it as "FDR," which I don't think was the actual name for the software, it just stands for "First Data Resources," We only ended up with that software because the company was originally going to get into issuing credit cards but then decided not to but still had the contract with First Data, so they converted all the loans onto it and it was a clusterf**k, all the loans still had some data store in the old servicing system because ancient credit card software isn't exactly meant to do things like keep track of 1098E eligible interest. There was a guy in upper management that used that same exact software at a certain major credit card issuer/servicer/processor (that's not AmEx,) and that was as far back as in the early 90s and while he was at that company he actually worked as the middleman communicating between the developers and end users on the graphical frontend they were making in the late 90s or early 2000s. The software the loan company originally used was internally purpose built and they never should have abandoned it, it dated as far back as the late 80s, at one point I found an old ComputerWorld or InfoWorld article about the system from the mid 90s, explaining that it was built to work on some Amdahl mainframe and that it was pretty much the best education loan servicing platform ever made at that point and that's part of the reason the government was still giving them FFEL Program loan contracts and hadn't went to doing all Direct Loans like they did after 2010 because at that point in the 90s there was really no other servicer that could do what we could as efficiently as we could, and that was in the early 90s, that software was still in active development until they stopped primarily using it about a decade ago, it was so well designed and built for the purpose that they should have never stopped using it and I think now I heard they may have actually sold that software to First Data/Fiserv.

[@billienomates1606]

As an old fart in his 60's who has enjoyed buying a lot of tech over the decades. I have had had first hand experience of these horrible rubber coatings disintegrating on many products. The worst part is some of my tech made of plastic, such as Psion organisers and a few other items. The actual plastic has become brittle and just breaks away. The tech of the 70's and 80's was much better built than the tech built today. I expect in another 50 to 60 years from now most tech of the 1970's and 1980's era will most probably have turned to dust. Unless it is enshrined in some form of hermatically sealed case and not touched.

[@camion__]

Fart?

[@romella_karmey]

Daddie gimme iPhone 👉🥹👈

[@famousfighter2310]

@@camion__ saying hes an old dude

[@EgoShredder]

@@camion__ Old people let off wind from their rear more often than younger age groups, hence the English phrase "old fart".

[@kumquat19138]

Rubber coatings from 90s laptops hardly qualifies as “tech today”. Modern laptops are built out of solid aluminum chassis…. Pretty durable

[@bibasik7]

You know sh!t's getting real when Psivewri brings out the full strength eucalyptus oil

[@Art7220]

Is he from Australia? Eucalyptus oil doesn't seem to be available anywhere else.

[@G-C-G]

@@Art7220 Yes.

[@markarca6360]

Eucalyptus oil is an Aussie staple!

[@LexYeen]

My eyes started watering at the idea of the stuff. You aussies are built _different._

[@samuell.foxton4177]

I thought the video sponsor was going to be Eucalyptus Oil…

[@TheSpotify95]

1:54 Always delete your files when you sell on your computer! You never know who may be buying it, so you don't know what will happen to your data. At the very least, clear everything that can be seen as "personal information" - including the wireless networks, etc - though ideally, reinstall the OS or (even better) take out the hard drive, put another compatible hard drive in and clean install the OS.

[@0xbenedikt]

Makes buying old stuff much more interesting though ;)

[@Mitchel-Gaming]

Where is spotify94?

[@romella_karmey]

Dang I store my personal details on my personal PC 😂

[@calzonemaniacsvideocorner0804]

I remember when LGR got his Monorail AIO PC, and there was straight-up hardcore porn on it.

[@TheSpotify95]

@@romella_karmey What I meant is, when you sell your PC on (when you no longer need it), make sure to remove everything personal before you sell it on, so that personal documents and stuff don't go to the new owner.

[@PaulFisher]

The graphic design on the removable modules (and their overall industrial design) is really something.

[@billtwok6864]

Do not remove the rubber coating. Rub it down with corn starch. It will last another 20 years before it "melts" again.

[@Марк.Фетнов]

That rubber coating was used by VW group on their cars in the late 90's and early 2000's and has the same issue now. Mainly used on switchgear where scratching really shows up due to the backlighting.

[@dailyhoodmemories5531]

Common VW L

[@dustojnikhummer]

The handbrake on my 2004 Fabia feels like it is also starting to melt

[@XXLuigiMario]

It's pretty incredible how modular these machines were built... how much we've regressed.

[@bigbruh9359]

Does it have crankshaft position sensor issues 🤔🤣 All jokes aside you make great videos 👍👍👍👍

[@KuntalGhosh]

I recently found my dads 2000 lenevo. As expected the battery was dead and no charger. I took the battery apart and made a 3 stage divider then powered bms board with 12v from bench power supply and shorted the fets briefly to enable output and it worked. The laptop powered on and the harddrive was still running. I got into windows me and after discovering it still has a lot of files i shut it down and removed the hdd , and plugged into my pc with a usb to ide adapter and made an image of the drive. I found a lot of sus meterials in the download folders. Including some really low quality 18+ things 💀💀

[@liammccauley9380]

Some things are better left not found

[@KuntalGhosh]

@@liammccauley9380 that's right but i also found a crap ton of child hood pictures and videos. My dad was a camera guy and he had a huge sony camera in 2003 that used to record in dv tapes at 1080i. And a bunch of those were in that laptop cus it was the only one with a fire wire port & it had svideo , tv tuner and separete left and right audio line in , optical toslink digital out. These features can not be found in any new laptop. Specially a builtin svideo and tv tuner. 99% laptops do not include separete line in but atleast they have a software defined port so u can make it line in but not have line out at the same time. No chance of getting digital spdif or optical in any laptop made in last 10yrs.

[@imaginemick9986]

I currently own a thinkpad laptop, similar to those, thats over 17 years old and it’s still a everyday-use laptop. Very impressive product!

[@KomradeMikhail]

This model is a middling Win98 machine at most... but makes for a beast of a DOS machine if you care to downgrade. The MMX chip with the setmul utility is perfection.

[@baconandpepperonipizza4150]

Hey, Nathan. Great video! I would love to see you get some iPod Classics and go all out by flash modding them, putting a bigger battery, etc. I think you would enjoy it, and it is relatively simple to do. I’m sure you know who DankPods is. Cheers!

[@raven4k998]

you see you see this is why even a laptop needs new thermal paste from time to time to keep it running cool it will burn it self out and melt it's case even from heat build up

[@Qwerty-uiop]

@@raven4k998 what does that have to do with this comment?

[@Dugi29]

Always nice to see that some 1997 laptops have thinner screen bezels than my old asus laptop from 2016...

[@xVGAmusicPlayerz]

My Asus X409U Has a fricking thin bezels, and My Lenovo S10-2 Ideapad Is THIEECK...

[@ruffprophetproductions]

I think it would be interesting to do modern day comparisons in terms of value/remarkability for these old devices. Like for example I guess getting a 720p display OTG back then would be like getting … an 8k 21inch laptop now? Idk lol can someone older than me chime in and give an example?

[@kaitlyn__L]

“Dirty Daffy” “Dirty Bugs” OH NO

[@BWAC]

Hey not sure if this helps at all but if you need to transfer files between these old windows boxes you can use the serial port much the same as you would FTP. Back when I needed to do this I would just keep a variety of DB9 and DB25 converters. The amount of times i'd plug a USB into windows 98 only to remember it would prefer a CD was annoying, love the videos the classic tech space is awesome

[@ThatFoldableGuy]

At 5:42, you can see a small label with a Canadian flag on it. It say "Industry Canada" in French and English. These tags were placed in IT products and telecomunication devices provisioned by the Government of Canada to their employees.

[@FurbleFawks]

It's odd that there was a UK modem card and an old UK dial up ISP (freeserve) installed and the laptops had those stickers, yet they ended up in Tasmania!

[@epic_paul27]

The keyboard also has the British currency symbol which makes me think the computer is originally from UK. I have a Toshiba T5200 I picked up locally in America that is also from the UK somehow...

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@epic_paul27 tbh all the multinational banks, insurance firms, etc that operate out of London mean a lot of businessmen pass through periods living there and then go on to a branch in NY, Sydney, Frankfurt, or what have you. But often keep the laptop, since after all you're not leaving the company. Er, they're not leaving the company.

[@CesareVesdani]

IBM Thinkpads are great laptops from that era. Still, Thinkpads are made today, but for modern operating systems like Windows 10 and Windows 11.

[@TheSpotify95]

That was a really nice overview of these machines! I'd personally keep the one with the upgraded 5GB hard drive - hopefully that was the one that you cleaned up! I must say, I don't like rubberized coatings on laptops either, since they tend to break down. Even some Dell Studio laptops that I've bought not too long ago (~10 years ago?) have started to have their rubber surfaces melt. :(

[@DaXande135]

​@@robertszujo9528 Had to work with a new Dell Laptop recently too, also had a rubber coating, sadly.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

A lot of lower end android phones have rubberized backs. Im not looking forward to the shenanigans its going to bring to my phone stash.

[@DaXande135]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 Not only low end ones. My Samsung Galaxy S5 also has a molten rubberized back

[@chuuisinsane]

DONT GET RID OF THE COATING!!! if you don't have to remove the coating and it doesn't look melted and is just sticky, then put baby powder on the surface of it. it sounds ridiculous but it works. i did it with the coating on the palm rest of my dell precision and it hasn't been sticky

[@joshjacobson9846]

Got out of retro games collecting 2020-2021 and it’s wild how quickly 90s stuff is starting to age the last few years. It’s gone from merely collecting and storing to full on preservation work

[@sjogosPT]

Retro is becaming very expensive and the 90s stuff starts to show its age. People need to take care of stuff, old hardware needs care, needs to be powered on from time to time and used, not just stored in a box. Batterys leak, caps leaks, cdrom belts become loose etc. Some people that only collects and store and not take care of hardware, someday they will try to turn on the device and does't work and some maybe beyond repair.

[@hikari1690]

I remember seeing these in brochures and thinking someday when I can afford it I'll buy a strong laptop like it. Here I am almost 40 and still cant afford anything at that price

[@caeserromero3013]

The rubberised coating is used on a LOT of stuff and it starts to melt REALLY quickly. I have a Lenovo USB DVD drive and the rubberised coating started to go sticky after only a few years. I ended up covering the case in sticky backed plastic because every time I handled the drive, my hands got sticky. But it's not just electricals. I've even had ball point pens coated in that stuff and it's really unpleasant trying to write with a pen that leaves all that stuff on your hands. It also makes you wonder how toxic the chemicals can be?

[@simonomisimonomis]

Some car interiors also have that rubberized coating that melts quickly

[@BigDrewski1000]

Yea, rubber parts from that era, i.e. coatings, rubber feet, etc. turning to goo on laptops is quite common actually

[@BearPlayzYTVids]

I think the Windows 98 startup sound is the most futuristic, and best, Windows startup sound.

[@joe--cool]

Yup. Microsoft said it also was quite expensive. Also the Welcome to Windows 98 program that launched on first run and blasted on the speakers.

[@BearPlayzYTVids]

Oh

[@akaJughead]

I think the companies knew that the rubber coating would eventually break down, and we're okay with it. I don't think they ever thought someone would collect their products, and that they would just go to e-waste after a while.

[@michaelwright2986]

That rotten stuff was put on a number of high-end consumer products, stuff like portable radios that weren't going to be obsolete in a couple of years. I think they just didn't test it properly, especially in humid climates. It did feel really nice when it was new, though.

[@timbermicka]

​​@@michaelwright2986 I have an electronic pen from 2006 coated with this stuff. I'm not using it anymore but when I checked it recently the coating had turned into goo

[@michaelwright2986]

@@timbermicka Frustrating, isn't it. Do you know what happens?

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@michaelwright2986 it's rubber reversion, and it's been a known problem for many kinds of rubberised coatings. It's possible that, a lot like with certain painkillers, they thought that This Time They'd Solved The Problem... but I kinda doubt it. As a rule of thumb these things just only ever have 20-30 year lifespans. It also seems time away from oils accelerates the degradation, as devices which sit unused degrade faster (sometimes even just 5 years) and some people have reported using olive oil or mineral oil to rejuvenate some of them. I've even seen it begin to happen with some older spare silicone cooking utensils when I use my wooden ones.

[@HouseOfFunQM]

"n" and "m" was also SAP r2 next/previous record buttons. Could've been that idk.

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Electronics can get hot if left running for a long period of time. In fact, planes have crashed due to overheating electronics that literally melted during the flight. There was a Swiss Airlines flight that had an experimental IFE system in first class that was similar to the seat back screens you see on modern planes but it was only available in first class. The electronics controlling this system got so hot that they started melting wires that were part of the electronics in the cockpit, causing crucial instruments to fail. In the end, the plane crashed into the sea with no survivors

[@SebisRandomTech]

I'm a simple man. I see a ThinkPad, I click Like! :)

[@marcin8112]

7:55 ah the sound of nostalgia... I didn't have a Thinkpad but I rememeber booting up my old PC with Win 98 and playing HoMM 3, Fallout 2, Abe Oddysee, and Rayman 2 among many other classics.

[@williamcurwen7428]

If you want to clean the sticky gunk off an old laptop/camera - don’t use a solvent. Use a microfibre cloth dampened with water to gently wipe away the surface layer of grot, over and over and over again … and it will eventually slough off.

[@redaliceholeden3941]

I liked your video so much I "blanked" almost all the way through it. Was going to thumb up but broke the mouse "blanking". Just about managed to tab through to the comments and tell you how much I liked it.

[@romella_karmey]

Wow the Price of that lappy can buy you 6 iPhone 14 Pro Max 1 TB in my country. (Inflation adjusted of course) it's amazing how technology advanced and the products being sold become cheap overtime. I wonder what would the future of phones and all our common household appliances will become

[@MegaMug]

"fat cartoon" Guys, we found Pyrocynical's laptop

[@ncwplaneteer7007]

Great video as always. Keep them coming. What about some retro PDA’s? Those are fun too

[@Jotom87]

Buddy found antique 144p porn and threw it out?! I thought this was a historical channel!

[@goclunker]

You can remove the rubber coating with brake fluid. Fully disassemble and let the panels sit in brake fluid and gently scrape with old bank card. 24 hrs usually works. Don’t let them sit too long as brake fluid can make plastic brittle. You can then paint. I had a 600E i did this to. I painted it candy apple metallic red. It looked like a million bucks. 2k clear.

[@chuuisinsane]

to fix the stickiness i've found putting baby powder on the surface of it will at least make it not sticky but it wont make it look not melted edit: Nevermind i'm too late

[@samjackson7701]

Ridiculous timing... I'm just now imaging Win95 onto an SSD for my TP 560 :)

[@crapasanya]

You can pretty easily remove this soft-touch (rubberised) coating with solvent 647. But be careful: under it sometimes could be gray and/or ugly plastic so first try on hidden place. In this case i'm painting it with tranperent nail varnish, but it's also a bit ugly. You can also try some spray varnishes, but i'm not sure if it's safe.

[@jasonstalder5208]

if you can find out what the plastic is, then you can find out what can be applied. i would imagine a good clean and almost any paint would stick, they used to use alot of abs plastics back then.

[@crapasanya]

@@jasonstalder5208 yes but there is still a lot of new soft touch stuff, and i have variable sucess cleaning it - a lot of times you don't even have to paint it

[@jasonstalder5208]

@@crapasanya you just said you were painting it, that's probably the cause of my confusion

[@Wasper216]

Manufacturers still use awful soft rubber coating these days. And it’s still melting 🤦‍♂️

[@frostedbutts4340]

Don't worry.. 99% of modern electronics will be in the landfill long before it's a problem!

[@supercompooper]

I had one of these back in the day and used it to demonstrate I could our code everyone. My laptop was quite limited vs the servers our software ran on but my code would always run 10x to 100x faster than others 😁

[@p0llenp0ny]

You want a cookie?

[@Fr4ncM]

Keeping your porn in a 1997 Thinkpad is a top notch sigma move.

[@JohnAndrewFFallurin]

I enjoy seeing vintage laptops that are still fully functional despite their age.

[@wendellporter4875]

would be lucky if any of the china made crap now last more then a few years

[@BearPlayzYTVids]

1:58 AYOOOOOOOOOOO THAT IS THE MOST SUS THING PSIVEWRI HAS EVER SAID 😂😂😂

[@ThatTonybo]

I removed the rubber off of my dead 600X the similar way. Worked great. At least you have a working ThinkPad!

[@jerbid_]

Bruh is there a connection between 90s Thinkpads and questionable images? My 760EL from 96(?) had them too lmao

[@pentiummmx2294]

i have the ED which is a more fancier version of that with a 1024x768 TFT screen, i did swap the mwave with a ESS audiodrive in mine.

[@colindragan9352]

2:00 "Dirty Garfield Files" I don't know what that is but I like to imagine whoever owned this expensive laptop in 1997 used it to download Garfield porn

[@OliveIsTyping]

Lol what the fuck

[@fr0sted245]

I am bit surprised that the warning labels had finnish language on them

[@RetroPC]

Excellent video! ThinkPad is my favorite retro laptop brand. You mentioned you may be selling one of them? I may be interested in buying it!

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

I remember the machine and got an old one from uncle about 6 months before Windows XP came out, pentium 90mhz it was but with a smaller screen than yours, maybe even smaller than the cheaper model! An interesting feature is the lack of a fan ! Does yours have a fan? I remember the bottom got very hot and of course I had to try some XP beta on it which was overly slow but also very cool to see 😊

[@ryanvacation7319]

Great content. Been recently enjoying your fantastic videos for a while. I'm curious, why use eucalyptus oil? What are the properties of that oil that made you prefer it for cleaning/scraping vs other commercial cleaners? (Perhaps a video on it?)

[@kyssOwO]

i remember my cousins father having old xp laptops lying around i asked him to sell it to me and i bought it for 35 dollars for me its a steal ofcoz and i also did clean and wipe the hard drive but i did clone the hard drive using it wasnt very good youtube videos sometimes wont play lmaooo

[@razorsz195]

I've had good luck using a multisurface polish and magic erazer on those sticky coatings on cameras, rather than remove it it sands it back down into a consistent rubberised coating again that lacks that sticky grease texture, it still has the grippiness to it, not the smoothness from factory but going heavier with the MSP did help, if you wanted to keep the other original of course.

[@GreenRecon]

I have had success with normal Armor All wipes and significant scrubbing - it removes the soft touch coating but leaves the underlying plastic clean. You'll want gloves (the soft touch stuff will stain as it's removed), but once it's gone, there's no residue.

[@BigRevKev82]

Hey man. Can I buy one of these think pads from you? 😎

[@thebiggerbyte5991]

I love the modular way these ThinkPads are designed - a Framework laptop ancestor. Great machines and a great video.

[@mrmerlin6287]

Man, my family had one of these, a bit of a later model, and I remember just how premium they felt compared with our beige desktop PC of the late 90s.

[@turdcalzone7636]

Disrespectful to even look at his "deleted" files.

[@8BitRetroJournal]

I have a 365XD which are a year or two earlier. They are straight black plastic, so no gunk. I do love how easily they open and you can get at the inside from the keyboard lifting up. Neat design...they are definitely the size of a thick textbook.

[@nathanjackson5023]

I have a 365X and it’s great other then some hinge problems

[@pentiummmx2294]

the 560 and 380 are the same way, no rubber crap, my 760ED though sticky surprisingly

[@mrcrackerist]

Any chance to try Linux on them? :P

[@kimurajustice]

Waiting for the next car repair video 😂

[@mraaron1584]

i had a couple of those 765d machines around 2000-2001 whoever owned them before me must have spent a small fortune upgrading them one was maxed out with 80mb of ram a 6 gig hdd and the cd rom was replaced with an 8x dvd rom. one thing that sucked was u could never really go beyond windows 98 with them IBM only ever put out a beta driver for the sound card for windows 2000 and the beta driver was super buggy and the 2000 beta driver would not work at all with windows xp.

[@luk_143]

1:56 Porn. It’s porn. I bet $2000 for it!

[@DSCuber]

You should do a collection video, it would be neat to see how you display/keep your retro tech

[@elektron2kim666]

Some of the Psions also got that weird coating and it's quite okay underneath. Awesome to see the old Thinkpads, however, I won't buy any before they are T/X60+

[@dodogamingdz3744]

my dream is get a laptop like this laptop

[@MissionSilo]

From Africa? Holy smokes

[@zybch]

While I didn't have this model, I did have a thinkpad with that god awful ruberised coating (plus mice, a gamepad and organiser). The worst for me was the gamepad which was amazing to use till it started degrading :(

[@rilum97]

The Eucalyptus Oil company should sponsor you.

[@ArniesTech]

I absolutely love my ThinkPad T61 running Ubuntu 22.04LTS now 💪🙏

[@thebasketballhistorian3291]

Never thought I'd see "p**** devil" in a Psivewri video. 😲 (I'm referring to the previous owner's recycle bin.)

[@garyreardon11]

Great video. When I was younger I always wanted a IBM ThinkPad.

[@minecraftslegacycommunity486]

"ThinkPad" Sorry bro, but, because of my bald Math Teacher, we call them "YouCanThinkPad"

[@tomonabudget]

DO NOT use EUCALYPTUS oil on plastic! That stuff is horrendous to many plastics and makes them brittle! I worked with people that engineer medical equipment because who were doing some extensive testing because patients keep using to clean their stuff. Some plastics will become so brittle from Eucalyptus oil that they shatter like dried cookies. I had that happen to a solar charge controller.

[@zingyyellow554]

I got an 380d still in the case and original install of 95, like you said the screen isn't the best, but on an external monitor it's great

[@papagen00]

I bought the ThinkPad 701C with 'butterfly' keyboard for $5000.

[@Technoid_Mutant]

Wipe the sticky surface with high-test alcohol until you stop getting black junk on your cloth. Once done, wipe the case with WD40 and repeat, until the case no longer absorbs the wd40. Then you can clean the machine and put it back in service. The Atari Portfolio has this same case material.

[@MaximNightFury]

It's either melting from heat or just rubber age... well, it's Australia/Tasmania, so... ¿Por que no los dos?

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Rubber is way cooler than plastic when new but 100% worse when old. It’s kind of like a mummified fruit.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

One of my PS3 controller's thumb sticks did this. The rubber started turning into a liquid. Very sticky.

[@JibplayzYT]

People in 1997: 6500 seems cheap People now: NO 2000 DOLLARS

[@Duraputer]

The previous own had an unhealthy obsession with dirty pictures of cartoon characters "look at the file names"

[@StaticVapour590]

My lower end model 310E has problem with disintegrating plastic everywhere

[@tobylifers3390]

A couple of really lovely units. Nice pickup! You inspired me to grab an old Compaq Preasrio 2100 notebook just like my Dad had back in the day.

[@Retrocidal]

i worked and sold hundred and hundreds of these IBMs i used to buy stuff at auction and fix it before every one started doing it on there own like online most places now keep the good stuff and put it online for sale so cant do that any more but it was fun i sodl thousands of pcs and gave away a few hundred i miss it i still cry sometimes i really did love it

[@Lachlant1984]

Sadly, device manufacturers still use that rubber coating on their devices, I hate that coating stuff, I think it should be banned.

[@stevec00ps]

Nice ThinkPads! I've got a selection too, the closest to these being a 770 - that cost $6,999 when new!

[@colombianguy8194]

I have a 770X, bought it from a guy in Germany, the shipping costs were expensive (I live in Colombia) but totally worth it. awesome machine with 1028x1024 screen, that would be amazing in 1999.

[@ZOPIT]

Still have one with me , fully working surprisingly .

[@MRSZ5440]

1997-99 That was around that last time I made some real,money theY2K UPGRADE I was clocking $47.50 hour to $ 87.00 an hour on a 1099 on one contract I had alone with the housing authority of Louisville the $ 47.50 was through Manpower staffing for the Social Security office in Louisvill,KY and Madisin IN wasn't that a crazy price for laptops back then. Thanks for the time travel upload. 👍🕛💻

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

I own an IBM 760XD and an incomplete 760EL (from that I transplanted the FM soundcard into the XD, because the original "Mwave" slows games very much and simulates FM very poorly). None of them are sticky, although the 760EL has lid paint flaking off. May it be that the laptop bag was evaporating plasticizer that attacks the PU rubber paint? Also do not use eukalyptus oil - it is way too strong and may strip the lettering from your keys! Perhaps it also decomposes the display polarizer after a while. And do not use "lens cleaner" (for exeglasses?) on it unless it was specifically sold as suited for LCD displays. I only use water (a damp tissue) to clean this screens. Anything corrosive (particularly acids like in window cleaner) makes them decompose. My 760XD LiPo battery is charged 3x per year and still holds some energy. I have a "Hama USB 2.0 CardBus" PCMCIA card with 2 USB slots for using a proper mouse and USB sticks. The hires screen (1024*768?,16 bit colour) has developed some hundred red, green and blue dead pixels near the edges but is otherwise working.

[@mrnapolean1]

I used a startup sound changer on my W10 machine to use the 98 startup sound. It still lives with me.

[@theboone3848]

Pretty neat but 6500 is a pretty shocking price tag...

[@frostedbutts4340]

Laptops were very expensive back then That and these would mainly be brought by businesses.. who cares when it's the boss's money!

[@theboone3848]

@@frostedbutts4340 Oh yeah for sure, but I audibly gasped when he said the price lol.

[@EastAngliaUK]

nice laptops good the seller did not lie bad about the packing though. this is why I only post small items.

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

I really hope the person who used that ThinkPad doesn't know we just looked at his equivalent to the "homework" folder

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

In O.G. Monster Truck Madness: [HINT!!] If you drive near and around the old farm house you will be able to hear an OLD MAN yelling: ""Hey you damn kids, get off my lawn!"" 😅😂🤣

[@juanpablorosalestinoco7739]

Thanks for your video! I have one I bought new in December 1997. Mine is the 765L. It was my 2nd pc, and my first laptop 💻 🙃! It took me through my masters in Architecture and urbanism, and my first jobs here in Guatemala where I live. I used to run AutoCAD 14, and even did a 3d model of a midrise. The IT guy at school installed windows NT on it. The ac adapter busted back in 2003, and it has not run since then. I want to bring it back to life. I jut found on ebay one of those 4 pin adapter. 🤞hopefully it will work 🙏. I have a lot of attachment to this unit. Mine doesn't have any locks on it cause it never was a company unit, so id like to upgrade the hd for a larger, and faster type of ssd. What type of connection adapter and ssd should I look for? Your input would be greatly appreciated!! Best, JP