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: https://www.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? ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).