Comment by dustinmr
4 days ago
I have a few of the THINK notepads that I found in my grandfather’s things after he passed away. He was an IBM employee in the 50s and 60s.
I remember picking the first one up and saying out loud, “that’s where the name came from!”
Yep, that exact story is related in "A Different Shade of Blue" (pg. 104):
>At the next staff meeting, Kathy Vieth asked Wainwright to report on his progress in naming the new pen tablet. He took the small leather pad with the word _THINK_ embossed on the cover and simply tossed it onto the table. All eyes followed the little black think pad as it sailed through the eair, almost in slow motion and landed --- _PLOP_ on the conference room table.
>>The team was very excited: everyone was talking. No one was sure whether it was Sue King, or Kathy Vieth, or Patty McHugh, or someone else who first declared, ``Denny, that's a think pad --- a tiny tablet. It's the perfect name. We'll call it a ThinkPad.''