When Upgrades Go Wrong: My ThinkPad 380D

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Today, I go digging through the basement, and pull out a machine that has a special place in my heart, my ThinkPad 380D which has suffered a hard life, and will likely suffer more in the pursuit of documenting history. Featuring cameo appearances of OS/2 Warp Connect, IBM "Easy" Setup, FreeDOS, handwritten data recovery utilities, and even a special sealed box of Microsoft software ...

Serial Dumper: https://github.com/NCommander/serial_dumper

Music Credits:
Two Pianos by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/57454 Ft: Admiral Bob (admiralbob77)

Between Worlds (Instrumental) by Aussens@iter (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 Ft: (Smiling Cynic)

Toddler Guitarist by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/58311 Ft: Subhashish Panigrahi

Forgotten Land by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/45486 Ft: Gurdonark, Joanne Gabriel

Midnight Theme (cdk mix) by Analog By Nature (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/14246

Forever Autumn Bunny by septahelix (c) copyright 2019
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/59586

Shiro (Instrumental) by Aussens@iter (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56795 Ft: Hans Montgomery Atom



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thinkpad 380d
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