From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 16:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3803B37BA7F for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA45367; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:33:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200004042333.SAA45367@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Dumb terminal vendor In-Reply-To: <00040420084701.00478@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> from Walter Brameld at "Apr 4, 2000 08:08:00 pm" To: brameld@twave.net (Walter Brameld) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:33:28 -0500 (CDT) Cc: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham), dan@mostgraveconcern.com (Dan O'Connor), abc@firehouse.net (Alan Clegg), bduk@earthlink.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Brameld babbled: > From brameld@twave.net Tue Apr 4 18:09:21 2000 > On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > Dan O'Connor babbled: > >> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:18:27 -0700 > > > >>>Note in this context, "notebook" is not == "laptop". It probably means a > >>>pad of paper and a pencil with few I/O capabilities beyond "erase". 8-) > >> > >> > >> > >> Oh. They still make those? > > > > I think mine's broken. I can't even find the "erase" button on this > > thing. It says "Bic" on the side, so could it be that I just have a > > poorly designed brand? I can get a command line, but the GUI is quite > > poor. Maybe it's just downrev. > > They usually only tend to get GUI if you leave them in your shirt > pocket too long... Why do you think I consider the GUI quite poor? At the price of replace- ment shirts it doesn't take many GUIs to make ME poor. I must need a new notebook. I hear the one called "Etch-A-Sketch" is quite nice, and the "erase" functions well. It even has a more advanced GUI that doesn't ruin shirt pockets. The command line interface sucks, though. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message