Gammitin (Ben) 💾IBM ThinkPad 550 BJ (1993) - Included an integrated Bubble Jet printer!
A few non-marketing photos (https://unwire.hk/2025/03/13/lenovo-thinkpad-yamato-lab-tour/notebook/amp/ & FB):
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delightfuldude@Gammitin 👀@thinkpadmuseum Ever seen anything like that?!
ThinkPad-Museum@delightfuldude @Gammitin Not in person unfortunately. Also real non-product photos are really rare of this machine 🥲
Tisha Tiger / Neliger@Gammitin Really? Oo
Hakan Bayındır@Gammitin Some more information and internals for interested folks:
fsniper@bayindirh @Gammitin Is that a ThinkDog(tm)? That's something I didn't know I needed desperately in my life!
Bart-Jan Vrielink@Gammitin where is the carriage return lever? This really should have a carriage return lever.
Nosaj 
@frameworkcomputer here's your next challenge lol. 🤣
Peter Sommerlad@Gammitin
I had visits by service technicians that had exactly such a thing for printing work reports/invoices to sign by me.
I had visits by service technicians that had exactly such a thing for printing work reports/invoices to sign by me.
Marc Haber@Gammitin We don't have decent portble printers until today! And today, they might be unnecessary because we are digitzing everything.
a fading echo@Zugschlus @Gammitin
Canon BJ10e was a pretty fair effort at it.
I liked that gadget, first printer I ever did.
Canon BJ10e was a pretty fair effort at it.
I liked that gadget, first printer I ever did.
Francesco Marinucci
BohwaZ@Gammitin A video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb4J-k6re5o
And some more details: https://imgur.com/gallery/portable-office-on-go-canon-bn22-bj-notebook-lhTjxRr
Portable office on the go! The Canon BN22 (BJ Notebook) printing laptop
iFixit@Gammitin That top photo of a ThinkPad without a TrackPoint is truly terrifying.
Christian Berger DECT 2763@Gammitin Yes, laptops are getting less and less useful. We are already back at ones that just have a tiny backup battery lasting just an hour or so under normal use.
Jhooper@Gammitin I had one, but it was a canon branded laptop?
Martin Matovu@Gammitin Today I learned: ThinkPad was originally an IBM brand until they sold it to Lenovo in 2005
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@Gammitin to learn more about these integrated bubble jet printers, look up “BJ” online! /j
U.Lancier@Gammitin The company I worked for at that time bought several of them, but scrapped them soon, as the ink came in 1.1 ccm cartridges which were empty after some 30 pages. Expensive, non-refillable of course, non-trivial to exchange, while the mechanical parts of the printer unit were fiddly and easy to screw up. Printing and paper transport were …s…l…o…w.
The Life of Brian@Gammitin Reminds me of my Panasonic Executive Partner.
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1990s Japanese tech companies were really just building whatever popped into their heads huh
1990s Japanese tech companies were really just building whatever popped into their heads huh
Justin Otherguy@Gammitin seems like someone put an ink in your thinkpad