Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!kdale@MINET-VHN-EM.ARPA From: kdale@MINET-VHN-EM.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Re: 68000 Laptop portables with networking Message-ID: <884@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:15:17 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.884 Posted: Thu Aug 22 11:15:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:24:20 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 >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