From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 21:50:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B7937B8AE for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23659; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id VAA17268; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 21:50:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Walter Brameld , "Dan O'Connor" , Alan Clegg , bduk@earthlink.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dumb terminal vendor Message-ID: <20000404215007.A17263@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <00040420084701.00478@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <200004042333.SAA45367@freeside.fc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <200004042333.SAA45367@freeside.fc.net>; from Jerry Dunham on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:33:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:33:28PM -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote: > 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 You guys realize that this is going down in the lore of nerd humor, don't you. I've got this one salted away in my ~/jokes file! gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message