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
    4·
    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?

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      This is my very first ThinkPad ever. I always drooled over these early 00s models at the local electronics shop, but I was just a poor highschooler then.

      It’s currently a very overpowered Win98 machine, while I get some late 90s gaming out of my system. Then I might blast to another part of my past, and install Linux-Mandrake on it for a while.

      I got the badge from some Hong Kong seller on ebay, who has an excellent and spot on selection of old PC stickers.

        • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          So, I knew I wanted an A31. But it was ajkula66’s forum posts that really convinced me to look for an A31p. It definitely took some time watching auctions like a hawk to find one, let alone one in decent condition.

  • Nathan Byrd@lemmy.sdf.orgMEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Very nice work! Do you happen to have a link to where you found this? An archive of old stickers would be fantastic to hold onto.