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From: kdale@MINET-VHN-EM.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  Re: Re: 68000 Laptop portables with networking
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:15:17 EDT
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>What would be a good way to network portable personal computers?  ...so
>that you could get access to your computer mail or online databases
>while hacking on a bluff overlooking the beach...

How about with a modem (of course), and a mobile phone - not a cordless, but a
true mobile phone like you see in cars or briefcases.  I wonder whether the
signal quality would support computer communications?  Anyone done it yet or
care to hazard a guess?

Keith M. Dale
(kdale@minet-vhn-em.arpa)
BBN Comm Corp
Stuttgart, W. Germany