Or gets a blue screen of death. Or has a trackpoint that gets dirty and worn down. Nope, the precursor to the original IBM ThinkPad was just a pad, with the word “Think” imprinted on its leather cover.

Apparently this pen and paper notepad was what inspired an IBM researcher to name the company’s computer ThinkPad. Man, I still love paper. Maybe even more than the ThinkPad T400S I wrote this post on. [A Continuous Lean]