IBM Tablet Type 2435

This funny little beast is, as far as I know a Japan-only unit made for sale directly to large corporate customers, possibly as a point of sale device. Mine is a 2435-A01

This one I own fully works but is temperamental - despite being recapped, which brought it back to life, it will often power up and beep in response to the touch-buttons down the left hand side, but will not show anything. Sometimes it will boot showing the display on the external SVGA output when docked and mostly it just does nothing.

I worked on this machine for quite a while and was happy when it worked, but often i would go back to it and then it wouldn't and then just when I was about to give up, it would!

As you can see, the machine has it's own battery, and both the tablet and the dock have a power connector, so you can run it inside or outside the dock.

Note that on the back label we can see it was made FOR IBM not BY IBM. I believe it was made by Panasonic.

I shared some more pictures on the thinkpads forum here.