-=> Quoting mark lewis to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> And I did a lot of BBSing with a Tandy Model 100 notebook
 LE> syste, 8085 CPU, 8, 1 24 or 32k of RAM. Which doubled as
 LE> *storage*, so you only had 5 k free on an 8k system. :-)

 ml> i've got two of these in perfect working order ;)

I've got three I can lay my hands on and there's a 4th hiding somewhere
in storage. I was using one for notes and stuff until a year or two back.

 ml> i actually did access compuserv many many many moons ago with at least
 ml> one of them... 

One of mine was fully tricked out. Multiplan ROM, Disk/Video Interface
(with 2 drives), 32k of RAM. So I had an 80x25 display on the monitor
hooked to the DVI. 

At one time, I was accessing CIS forums by connecting at 1200 bps un my
DT-100 terminal (a Wyse -75 clone). I had it set to 132x80. And I had a
serial to parallel converter hooked to a 64k printer buffer, which was
hooked to a heavy duty wide carriage printer. 

I'd set the display width on the forum to 132 columuns, turn off
pausing between messages, enable "echo display to printer port" on the
terminal and dump *all* the new messages to the printer.

It did pretty good. After an hour or two, it'd be about 15 minutes
behind on the printing. 

Then I'd wade thru the printouts and save the stuff I wanted and
compose the replies on the 100. I could make them one big text file
with the commands embedded in it. Upload in one swell foop.

After I got the DVI, I dumped to disk and jumped thru a lot of hoops to
grabb the messages in usable chunks.

I also used a short program that'd set the internal modem two 450 baud
when I was going to be in CO. :-)

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