09-21-13 11:20 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Backup software

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
 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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