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Re: Laptop console

  • From: Dean Anderson
  • Date: Thu May 14 19:25:59 1998

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


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