[16852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Laptop console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Thu May 14 19:25:23 1998
In-Reply-To: <199805142006.OAA21080@slack.xmission.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:18:49 -0400
To: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
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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