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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: 68000 Laptop portables with networking
Message-ID: <1633@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 11:25:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1633
Posted: Mon Aug 26 11:25:08 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 01:27:21 EDT
References: <876@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <876@brl-tgr.ARPA> Fischer.pa@XEROX.ARPA writes:
>What would be a good way to network portable personal computers?  ...so
>that you could get access to your computer mail or online databases
>while hacking on a bluff overlooking the beach...
>
>Tum dee dum...
>(ron)


If you want to take it that far.......How about a modem somehow attached
to the portable part of a cordless phone, or maybe one of these "cellular
telephone systems" that they are advertising these days. Does anyone know
whether the signal quality would be high enough for reasonable transfer
rates with a reasonable error rate?


Rick Sellens
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