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By Loot the Boots, 20th April 1999
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Down in the Tube this morning, we were astonished to see IBM's new ThinkPad advert. Labelled "It's a style item", a ThinkPad is draped over a designer coathanger. What happened to Lou's FootWare initiative, then? ®

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