(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.
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.
At 4:06 PM -0400 5/14/98, Pete Ashdown wrote:
(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.
Make the pb sleep when not in use, so you don't have to reboot. And get more batteries. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP/DCE http://www.av8.com We Make IT Fly! (617)242-3091 x246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Stephen Wolff wrote:
.....I wish there was a laptop with a nice keyboard that did just serial terminal access.
Silent 700?
Get the 765 with magnetic bubble memory. ;-) -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
A network portable - now that's an idea! I'd buy one too. -DT On Thu, 14 May 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Stephen Wolff wrote:
.....I wish there was a laptop with a nice keyboard that did just serial terminal access.
Silent 700?
Get the 765 with magnetic bubble memory. ;-)
-- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Doug Tooley wrote:
A network portable - now that's an idea!
Heh. Palm Pilot with a serial cable. :-) -- -------------------. emarshal at logic.net .--------------------------------- Edward S. Marshall `-----------------------' http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ Linux labyrinth 2.1.101 #2 SMP Sun May 10 22:34:20 GMT 1998 i586 unknown 10:40pm up 1 day, 11 min, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.48, 0.22
Greg Simpson wrote:
HP48GX, baby! :)
At 02:06 PM 5/14/98 -0600, Pete Ashdown wrote:
Speaking of, does anyone have a recommendation for a simple VT100 capable laptop? I wish there was a laptop with a nice keyboard that did just serial terminal access.
HP 200LX?
Randy
In a pinch I have been using a PalmPilot. Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." -- Bertrand Russell
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Dean Anderson -
Doug Tooley -
Edward S. Marshall -
Greg Simpson -
Michael Dillon -
mparson＠smartnap.com -
Pete Ashdown -
Randall S. Benn http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn -
Stephen Wolff -
Tim Pozar