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From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.terminals,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Flat screen LCD "Monitors"
Message-ID: <3372@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 25 Feb 89 17:37:31 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc.
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In article <199@xpiinc.UU.NET> mjb@xpiinc.uu.net (Michael J. Braca) writes:
>>A laptop computer seems like an obvious solution.  Except, since
>>this "terminal" needs no smarts, it seems a waste to buy all that
>>power with no need for it. 
>Sounds like you want the Colleague(tm) Laptop VT220 terminal! ...
>It can be yours for only $995.

Considering that you can get a perfectly good T1000 laptop for $700, it
seems pretty silly to pay an extra $300 not to get the extra smarts, unless
you also get a modem.  Then again, you can get a pocket modem for considerably
less than $300, so the computer is probably still the way to go.  Besides,
a computer emulating a terminal is better than a terminal.  You can log
your terminal sessions.  You can have it run canned scripts.

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