Cheap Laptop Terminals

[Steve Dyer]

I just bought a T1000 last week (and am typing on it now!)  I find it
has all I need for a terminal-away-from-home: it's light, readable-enough,
and light.  I'm running MSKERMIT.EXE straight from Columbia's distribution,
which means that it's a PC through and through.  Just fine emulation of
a VT100 using the latest MSKERMIT.  By all means get the 768K RAM card--
it fill out RAM to 640K (from 512K) and can be used as a "hard RAM disk",
i.e. Drive C: is MSDOS in {RAM (with a hack to allow config.sys stored in
RAM) and drive D: is a 640-odd K non-volatile RAM disk, which is lighter,
faster and more convenient than having two 3.5" floppies.  Drive A: is the
floppy, and an external 5.25" floppy can be connected is desired.

It's REAL cute, handy and portable, and for all the talk about faster V20/V30
chips, this 4.77 mhz machine is plenty fast for terminal emulation.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer at harvard.harvard.edu
dyer at spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer