IBM Thinkpad 380CE

I have the main unit and power adapter.

type computer
country USA
year 1997
os MS DOS / Windows 3.1
cpu  Intel Pentium
speed 166 MHz
ram 64 MB
disk 3.5″ 1.44 MB
hd 2.1 GB
cd 8x
graphic  12″ TFT 800 x 600 Dual Scan /s3
colors 256
sound Crystal 16bit
ports monitor, keyboard/ mouse, RS323, centronics, two PCMCIA


The IBM ThinkPad 380CE — The Complete ThinkPad

The IBM ThinkPad 380CE, released in 1997, was part of IBM’s 380 series — a family of ThinkPads that emphasised completeness and multimedia capability with built-in CD-ROM drives, a significant addition at a time when many laptops still required external optical drives. Using a Pentium MMX processor, the 380CE supported Intel’s MMX multimedia instruction set that accelerated audio, video, and graphics processing for the growing range of multimedia applications and games that characterised the mid-1990s computing experience.

Pentium MMX

Intel’s MMX technology, introduced in January 1997, added 57 new instructions to the Pentium processor specifically designed to accelerate multimedia operations — video decoding, audio processing, image manipulation, and 2D graphics. The ThinkPad 380CE’s Pentium MMX processor could handle MPEG video playback more smoothly than earlier processors, making it practical for multimedia presentations, training videos, and the early internet content that was beginning to include streaming media.