Jim Anderson wrote:
>
> I used to carry a Visor Deluxe around. I was really into the thing,
> carrying a bunch of ebooks and applications. After I bought an MP100 and
> decided that it was better than the Visor for me, I gave the Visor to my
> wife. She soon discovered the joys of AvantGo and having about 10 different
> newspapers on it, updated daily. She carries it everywhere, and reads the
> news at every red light. She sometimes chides me about the size of my
> MP2100, and how useful her Visor is.
> Anyway, we have a home network with a dedicated computer that
> handles email, usenet, httpd, etc. A few days ago the net card connecting to
> the rest of our house died. The outgoing net card was still up, but we
> couldn't reach the internet from our home computer. No more AvantGo for
> Corey. We couldn't even do anything with our dedicated server since it is a
> "headless" machine. In a depressed haze my wife left to go work out without
> her daily news fix. When she came back I was sitting there with my Newton,
> modem in, dialed up to our ISPs backup phone line. I had telnetted into our
> server to make sure it was running OK, downloaded all my email with
> Simplemail, and then used NewtsCape to order a new net card from egghead.
> She just stood there for a bit with her jaw open. I haven't heard a chiding
> word about the "clunkiness" of my MP2100 since.
Very nice story! That should be put somewhere on the net!
-Laurent.
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Fannie Mae Washington, DC, USA
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