I interned at IBM Canada in the late 90s and I remember back then among my peer group, the only thing we cared about was that they made great laptops in the Thi

I interned at IBM Canada in the late 90s and I remember back then among my peer group, the only thing we cared about was that they made great laptops in the ThinkPad line (now owned by Lenovo, of course). It definitely felt like an "old" company even then. I remember they were very big on patents and were proud of the fact that they had a huge patent war chest.