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Re: Laptop console
From: mparson () smartnap com
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:34:33 -0500
In message <199805142006.OAA21080 () slack xmission com>, you write:
(Of course neither of these is a substitute for doing the telnet from your trusted laptop)Speaking of, does anyone have a recommendation for a simple VT100 capable laptop? I currently use this PowerBook 5500 which takes forever to boot and currently has a bad battery that goes to sleep all the time. 99% of the time I'm using it, I'm using it in Z-Term. I wish there was a laptop with a nice keyboard that did just serial terminal access.
I use an HP4000C that I bought refirbished off surplusdirect for $800, runs DOS and Telix, makes a great terminal. Specs: o 486DX4-100 o 8 meg (expandable to 32) o 540 meg HD (~480 usable, the rest is for the 'hard sleep' partition, where it writes mem to disk before the battery dies). o 640x480 color LCD, I don't remember the type of LCD (dual scan, etc) but it is perfectly usable in 'text' mode. -- Michael Parson Systems Administrator SMARTNAP Corp.
Current thread:
- Laptop console Pete Ashdown (May 14)
- Re: Laptop console Dean Anderson (May 14)
- Re: Laptop console Stephen Wolff (May 14)
- Re: Laptop console Michael Dillon (May 14)
- Re: Laptop console Doug Tooley (May 17)
- Re: Laptop console Edward S. Marshall (May 18)
- Re: Laptop console Michael Dillon (May 14)
- Re: Laptop console mparson (May 15)
- Re: Laptop console Randall S. Benn http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn (May 17)
- Re: Laptop console Greg Simpson (May 18)
- Re: Laptop console Tim Pozar (May 18)
- Re: Laptop console Greg Simpson (May 18)
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- Re: Laptop console Joe Shaw (May 21)
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