09-21-13 11:20 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Backup software   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <523E1941.860.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV>09-16-13 14:54 BOB KLAHN wrote to TOM WALKER about Backup software   
      
      
    EV> BK>  My first PC was a portable, sold by some company I don't   
    EV> BK>  remember. I bought the portable so I could take it to work.   
    EV> BK> They   
    EV> BK>  had no expansion capability, but a plug for an external   
    EV> BK>  expansion bus. They never sold the external bus, couldn't get   
    EV> BK>  FCC clearance. Most likely, too much interference.   
      
    EV>Bob, Was it a Grid Luggable PC?   
    EV>A Friend of mine who worked for COuthern Bell bought the one   
    EV>he used from the Co. after they gave him a laptop.   
      
    TW> Whan I hear "Luggable" PC/s IO think of Compaq, Osborne and   
    TW> Kaypro. Never had one for freinds have had then. As I recal the   
    TW> Keyporo was the most sducessful and becasue both the Osborne   
    TW> and the Kaypro were popular and used the CPM operating system   
    TW> thare was a lot of Free software that I could run on my   
    TW> Commodore 128 in CPM Mode. ---   
      
   IIRC, the Grid computer was built in a suitcase too.   
   I think I played with one at SAM's once back in 1993 to learn   
   a little bit of MS-DOS BASIC.   
      
   I wanted to get it back to a DOS Prompt after I finished   
   tinkering with it.   
   After several tries I finally remembered to type SYSTEM before   
   I walked away from it.   
      
   I just remembered something that happened at SAM's on   
   another day long before I had access to a PC Compatiable   
   that I oculd play with (at work).   
      
   A fellow was using another one of the Demo PC's at SAM's,   
   He had been using DOS and wanted to get the computer back to   
   Windows 3.1, He noticed I had been looking over his shoulder,   
   and asked me if I knew how to get Windows started again.   
   I told him "I think you would just type WIN",   
   he did and it worked.   
      
   I really wasn't sure telling him WIN would work but it did.   
   So we both learned something that day.   
      
   ... I wish life had a scroll-back buffer.   
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