The laptop served me as a terminal, after the flyback transformer of my
VT320 died. (Side info: there are new VT320 flyback transformers on ebay for
$4 each. But the news is too late for me.)
I was facing the question as what to do. Buy a real terminal? Buy another
8086-386 laptop? Buy a mac SE? Buy a small used IDE HD? Buy serial cable for
the HP 100LX I have? Replace the unreliable floppy drive?
After one hour of surfing the internet, I finally bought 4 IDE-CF adapters
(laptop and desktop versions, $2 each). One for the laptop, one for the
pentium PC linux router, one for the 386 desktop.
Just want to share the experience with you so you do not need to waste the 1
hour as I did.
vax, 9000