Subj : Re: i remember.. a fancy new laptop
To   : August Abolins
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 09:26:00

-=> August Abolins wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

 AA> Reminds me of the time when I was on a business trip, rented a
 AA> laptop (an early offering that only had an LCD screen) for a
 AA> week, took that to work and used it to "dialup" to my office and
 AA> transfer files, using Kermit.

I discovered one of those way back when. Company had bought a Toshiba T1100, 
an XT-era laptop for transferring files, and it sat most of the time unused.

With a 1200 baud modem and little adult supervision from 0730 to 1000 or so, 
I could call all my favorite BBSes every day.

We had a midrange computer with Televideo terminals at each desk. I later 
realized the terminal had 2 serial ports, and a function key to switch 
between the two that worked like a "boss" key. see the boss walking down the 
hallway, hit Fn12, and switch back to the work screen.  :)

Worked like a charm, but the closest to ANSI it'd do was VT52.


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