Re: [Thinkpad] A? R? X? T? G?

ted..

up until 9-11 there was a thinkpad advisory group..
a couple of friends of mine were on it and a meeting was set up for later
2001, until 9-11 and then it was cancelled..
no further meeting has been scheduled, AFAIK..

contacting someone in thinkpad product development can't be easy since most
or all of that is done in yamato, japan..

i think your idea is excellent..
the light is not really UV, is it..
more like a blacklight that picks up the white and nothing more.. right..?
sounds like a good idea..

there was a fellow on my open forum who returned his R50 to ibm..
i think he was nit-picking and looking for something he did not like to
justify his returning it to ibm..
one of his "nits" was the thinklight was amber rather than white as on the
T40 series..
i disagree as the white light is too intense and glaring in a low light
situation..
amber is better and a black light would be even better..
the ultimate would be both black light and amber thinklights..

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "ted.frater" <ted.ffrater@virgin.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] A? R? X? T? G?

> If your looking for a s/hand thinkpad to move on from your 390x, then Id
> advise the A range IF you can find one.
> Ive had lots of laptops of all makes through my hands ,and stripped and
> rebuilt a large no as well. theres no doubt in my mind that thinkpads
> are the best built and best supported laptops available today.
> Here in the UK and Europe for that matter, they are rare, being senior
> management ex corporate level leasing releases from IBM Dresden.
> They have german keyboards to which I put UK overlays.
> Despite reserving everyone available, Ive only been able to lay my hands
> on 4 in the past 12 months.A search on Ebay UK revealed none, this means
> that they are in short suppy and anyone that has one doesnt want to part
> with it!!. Ive 2 of my own and wont part with them!! Till I can replace
> them. The 1400 by1050 screen is stunning and for everyday use a perfect
> desktop replacement.
> On another related matter, the thinklight.
> Its a great idea but not very effective. As my background is product R&D
> id like to see the thinklight changed to a UV led, with the white leters
> on the keyboard being UV light flourecent. I had this on all my flight
> instruments 40 years ago, so its nothing new. At the moment its
> difficult to see the keyboard with the thinklight on due to the amount
> of light emitted from the screen, for my tired old eyes anyway.
> The reason I have mentioned this is that I wanted to pass on to IBM my
> thoughts on this, and despite a long search throughout the IBM websites
> havnt found anywhere to email them to contact their thinkpad
> development labs. Does anyone have an inside track to this lab?
> IBM used to assemble thinkpads in Grennock Scotland but have now put
> this out to an independent assembler in Silicon Glen who are difficult
> to contact.
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> Ted Frater Dorset UK
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