18 Feb
2014
18 Feb
'14
2:36 p.m.
On 18 February 2014 05:56, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
It just seems that in 1997 being self-employed and
doing field calls (I
assume that you did) and not having a laptop was, well, strange.
I sometimes took one, but laptops are (or were, then) relatively big
and heavy & I could not assume connectivity. It was far simpler and
lighter to carry a small toolkit and a zip-up pouch of floppies
containing essential tools and drivers. Later this was supplemented
with a CD, then a wallet of CDs, then the floppies got pensioned off.
Later, it shrank to a USB key. Now I rarely use that - most stuff can
be grabbed online, but it's still handy to have.
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