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  • Re: Framework laptop

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:12:25
    As I said, lower end as far as power goes and such (Celeron) and
    it came with just a 64 Gig SSD, but I added 1/4 Terrabyte to that
    for $26, and the computer is Military grade so you can drop it or
    dump water on it without hurting it, so it seemed a good buy.

    I always wondered what people would think if you walked into a coffee
    shop and sat down with a Panasonic Toughbook with an external antenna...

    I have an older Thinkpad that requires a wireless dongle in order to
    connect. Not an external antenna, but something large enough -- with
    flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)


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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 05:18:53
    Re: Re: Framework laptop
    By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Nov 25 2025 11:12 am

    flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)

    I still want to do the coffee shop thing with an SX-64. I don't have a Kaypro or Osborne, unfortunately.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 07:16:31
    Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

    I have an older Thinkpad that requires a wireless dongle in order to connect. Not an external antenna, but something large enough -- with flashing little lights in its semi translucent case -- that might make some people wonder. ;)

    yeah, a sticker-bombed 4:3 thinkpad with an external wireless adapter
    running Linux got some interesting looks 10 years ago in a all-Mac
    coffee shop in a posh downtown area.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Friday, November 28, 2025 00:43:11
    Re: Re: Framework laptop
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Thu Nov 27 2025 09:28 am

    How early? I built a computer for someone in 2017 and added a PCI Express wifi card, and it had an antenna. Also I built a new computer for myself in 2019 and the motherboard has wifi built-in, and it has a couple of antennas.


    I remember inheriting some old Orinoco gear in 2004 or so -- a 802.11b AP with no ethernet ports, a handful of Orinoco "silver" cards, which only did 56 bit WEP, or maybe WPA...

    One of the cool things I got was a PCI card with a PCMCIA slot - the slot stuck out the back of the card, so the antenna of a wireless card stuck outside of the case.

    I remember being excited about 11 mbps. How far we've come...

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  • From Warp 4@VERT/KLYNTAR to Rob Mccart on Tuesday, December 09, 2025 09:05:00
    On 12 Nov 2025, Rob Mccart said the following...

    looks a little more robust than anything else I've seen other than
    the true military laptops you see in use by military and police swat
    teams on TV shows.

    yeah, our local ambulance company uses these kinds of laptops when they are taking patients to the hopital for information gathering. Pretty nice looking machines.

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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to WARP 4 on Thursday, December 11, 2025 09:13:48
    looks a little more robust than anything else I've seen other than
    the true military laptops you see in use by military and police swat
    teams on TV shows.

    yeah, our local ambulance company uses these kinds of laptops when
    >they are taking patients to the hopital for information gathering.
    >Pretty nice looking machines.

    Yes, mine isn't nearly as fancy but I figure anything to make it a
    little more sturdy than average is a good thing. It doesn't look
    too bad but it obviously wasn't designed to be slim and beautiful.

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