I’ve been slowly restoring this IBM ThinkPad A31p to its former glory. I’ve also been doing a few upgrades along the way: (P4 2.4Ghz, mSATA to IDE adapter, Wireless-N card, etc.)

One of the few, final cosmetic touch ups left was to replace the worn out Pentium badge. I managed to source a reproduction badge that looks accurate, so I thought I’d share the before and after.

Before

After

I think it turned out pretty well!

EDIT: compressed the images a bit.

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ajkula66 would be proud.

    I never used an A31p; I didn’t get into ThinkPads until the T41 was new.

    My oldest current machine is a T43p running OpenBSD. It’s nice to boot up sometimes and run cwm and surf.

    I love the notched corner, it was a cool design statement back then.

    Did you get the sticker from Vath?