didn't stay in position when moved. If you picked it up, the keyboard
would flop down, so you had to also hold the keyboard when moving it,
or fold it up, and then put it back in place after you move it.
Not much of a problem, just a little more annoying to move than a laptop. Laptop keyboards/monitors don't flop around when
you move them.
you can expect what you want, but you have to do your homework.
i knew having fidonet would require extra work and software.
i wouldn't use d'bridge though. EWWWW
i use irex and radius. much better.
D'Bridge was what Searchlight support recommended. I don't remember if Irex or Radius was free or paid back then. Maybe there were some shareware mailers?
Re: Commercial Synchronet
By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu Sep 22 2022 09:30 am
It's not that the keyboard came loose.. It was that the keyboard didn't stay in position when moved. If you picked it up, the keyboard would flo down, so you had to also hold the keyboard when moving it, or fold it up, and then put it back in place after you move it.
so how is this a problem.
that's how it was designed.
i wouldn't use d'bridge though. EWWWW
i use irex and radius. much better.
D'Bridge was what Searchlight support recommended. I don't remember if Irex
or Radius was free or paid back then. Maybe there were some shareware mailers? Back then everyone was on the software ban wagon looking to make a killing. I was in the Internet side of things working support for an ISP. Once I starting using the net I knew the BBS world would be a thing of the past. ftp and irc took the world by storm. lol
so how is this a problem.
that's how it was designed.
I think he wants some form of tension, like from a spring loaded hinge assembly on a standard laptop. A Surface needs a prop or kickstand on the back to hold up the display.
D'Bridge was what Searchlight support recommended. I don't remember if Irex o
Radius was free or paid back then. Maybe there were some shareware mailers?
In the 90s, I used to use FrontDoor for my FTN mailer, which seemed like a good one. I think it was shareware. A lot of
RemoteAccess BBSes seemed to use FrontDoor, but I imagine it would work for any DOS-based BBS software.
not that surprising considering Microsoft is banking their whole
OS future on the concept. bit of a shame they didn't buy lenovo
instead.. seems likethey're just making up slowly for lost time.
Was Lenovo considering selling their PC business?
so how is this a problem.
that's how it was designed.
I think he wants some form of tension, like from a spring loaded
hinge assembly on a standard laptop. A Surface needs a prop or
kickstand on the back to hold up the display.
my ex's father was at the house with us and he had a surface. I don't remember him having any issues. not sure if he had a special stand.
it didn't look like it.
There are Microsoft Surface tablets and laptop models... the tablets
have the plastic keyboard that attaches, some convertable models have a detaching tablet/display to a hard keyboard/stand and others have a
classic laptop layout.. varies by model.
not that surprising considering Microsoft is banking their whole
OS future on the concept. bit of a shame they didn't buy lenovo
instead.. seems likethey're just making up slowly for lost time.
Was Lenovo considering selling their PC business?
IBM sold the PC segment to Lenovo, which afaik was doing most of the manufacturing anyways.
On 9/22/22 09:36, Nightfox wrote:
not that surprising considering Microsoft is banking their whole
OS future on the concept. bit of a shame they didn't buy lenovo
instead.. seems likethey're just making up slowly for lost time.
Was Lenovo considering selling their PC business?
IBM sold the PC segment to Lenovo, which afaik was doing most of the manufacturing anyways.
--
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
On 9/23/22 16:21, MRO wrote:
so how is this a problem.
that's how it was designed.
I think he wants some form of tension, like from a spring loaded
hinge assembly on a standard laptop. A Surface needs a prop or
kickstand on the back to hold up the display.
my ex's father was at the house with us and he had a surface. I don't remember him having any issues. not sure if he had a special stand.
it didn't look like it.
There are Microsoft Surface tablets and laptop models... the tablets
have the plastic keyboard that attaches, some convertable models have a detaching tablet/display to a hard keyboard/stand and others have a
classic laptop layout.. varies by model.
--
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
not that surprising considering Microsoft is banking their whole O on the concept. bit of a shame they didn't buy lenovo instead.. se they're just making up slowly for lost time.
Was Lenovo considering selling their PC business?
I doubt Lenovo is selling anything. They picked up IBM's Personal Computing Division in 2005. They've created a good following since then.
In the 90s, I used to use FrontDoor for my FTN mailer, which seemed
like a good one. I think it was shareware. A lot of RemoteAccess
BBSes seemed to use FrontDoor, but I imagine it would work for any DOS-based BBS software.
Daryl Stout wrote to Nightfox <=-
In the 90s, I used to use FrontDoor for my FTN mailer, which seemed
like a good one. I think it was shareware. A lot of RemoteAccess
BBSes seemed to use FrontDoor, but I imagine it would work for any DOS-based BBS software.
I first used FrontDoor and GEcho, but went to InterMail and
InterEcho, back when I ran GT Power under DOS 5.
I first used FrontDoor and GEcho, but went to InterMail and InterEcho, back when I ran GT Power under DOS 5. GT also required a separate tosser called FidoGate, to make things work.
Irex or Radius was free or paid back then. Maybe there were some
shareware mailers?
In the 90s, I used to use FrontDoor for my FTN mailer, which seemed like a g one. I think it was shareware. A lot of RemoteAccess BBSes seemed to use FrontDoor, but I imagine it would work for any DOS-based BBS software. Nightfox
Getting the mailer to work was more difficult then setting up the BBS software. I remember thinking everyone would want an email address to send messages over the internet. Boy was I wrong. ;-(
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