This Does Not Compute | A Tale of Two Tiny ThinkPads @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Among its quirky siblings, the ThinkPad 240 was perhaps the most "normal" of IBM's subnotebook models in the late 1990s -- but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to repair.

Sources:
ThinkWiki 240 page: thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:240
"IBM's 3-Pound ThinkPad," PC Magazine, July 1999.
"A Bumper Crop Of Notebook PCs," Computerworld, November 15, 1999.
"Connect Anywhere," PC Magazine, August 1999.

00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - A pair of broken laptops
02:38 - Teardown
06:04 - Damaged USB port
08:45 - Plastics and display repair
10:50 - OK fine, I'll install Windows 98 this time
14:08 - Up and running
15:08 - passport.mid rules!!!
16:33 - Why didn't anyone buy these?

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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).