5 Apr
2011
5 Apr
'11
4:34 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:47 PM
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Portable Computing Turns 30
Back in my early days as an amateur radio operator, I recall taking my rig to school,
setting it up in one of our study spaces so I could give a demonstration to my fellow
middle-school students. I joked with someone I was a 'mobile' station and, with
the lack of humor often endemic among the hardcore pocket-protector crowd, one of my
fellow hams corrected me, telling me it was a 'portable' station. Never mind the
half-hour or so setting everything up, then untold time finding an appropriate place for
an antenna.... -- Ian
To be "portable", it shouldn't need
casters, and should have enough
handles that none of the people carrying it has a
load of more than 100
pounds.
Sure, if you mean "human" portable. That is * one * definition.