[16877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Laptop console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mparson@smartnap.com)
Fri May 15 14:28:21 1998
From: mparson@smartnap.com
To: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 14:06:27 MDT."
<199805142006.OAA21080@slack.xmission.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.
