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IBM did some creative (and useful!) things with the early Thinkpads. Remember the 755CD/V? You could pull the backlight off the LCD and strap the laptop to an
by joezydeco 11y ago
IBM did some creative (and useful!) things with the early Thinkpads. Remember the 755CD/V? You could pull the backlight off the LCD and strap the laptop to an overhead projector.
http://thinkwiki.de/images/0/07/755cdv-overhead.jpg http://thinkwiki.de/images/0/07/755cdv-overhead.jpg
- iliis 11y agoAwesome, I would never have tought that this is/was an actual product! We tried to do something like this as teenagers with an old (normal) LCD, but some ribbon-cables were in the way. Still, there are people building projectors themselves using that method.
- joezydeco 11y agoI have one. It's pretty simple in practice, although the LCD fades as it heats up from the projector's light.