On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Ty Sarna wrote:
> In article <199801082045.PAA17547@bcr11.uwaterloo.ca> you write:

> > No more than my carrying a MicroVAX II accross campus.  I could wheel
> > it part of the way but the strairs were really painful.
> 
> I don't know about Canada, but in the US now we have the ADA (Americans
> with large-and-heavy-Data-processing-equipment Act) now, so the school
> would have had to ensure that there were ramps to make the campus
> VAX-accessable ;-)

NEWSFLASH!!! port-vax redefines portable computing to include any VAX
system which an individual may tow around town under their own power.

On a related note.  This is something I either dreamed or maybe even have
previously read on this newsgroup, but I seem to recall a discussion of
someone repackaging the VS2000 logic boards into a laptop sized case.  I'd
imagine that it's entirely feasible.  You could probably even wire it to
an LCD panel which would behave as a simple serial terminal.

Maybe we could use some sort of collective mind control technique to get
the hardware designers at Digital to release a new VAX laptop.  The
MicroVAX II just cuts off the circulation in my legs after 5 mins or so.

-brian.
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