An earlier article about PowerPC-based ThinkPad 850 mentioned that the 850 was a close cousin of x86-based ThinkPads of the era. The OS/2 Museum now takes a look at one of those laptops, and interesting laptop in its own right: the ThinkPad 755CD.
The 755CD’s claim to fame is the fact that it was the first-ever laptop equipped with a built-in CD-ROM drive. In October 1994, a CD-ROM reader was common but not quite standard equipment for desktop computers, and portables by definition only came with a floppy drive. The 755CD flipped things around and came only with a built-in CD-ROM drive, although it could be swapped out for a floppy drive which used the same UltraBay connector. Continue reading