YES!! I love laptops for travel, and therefore use them at home too; but I always carry around a real keyboard and trackball to plug into the laptop so I can type at normal speed without having to find numeric keys, arrows etc.
(Just recently I had one of my sons build me a tower, with a bigger monitor and tons of RAM and HD space. (Keeping in mind what "tons of RAM" might mean to a guy who not so long ago thought 32K was really cool.) But mostly I got the new one because I figure my clients shouldn't suffer from my not having a backup, not because I really needed bigger and better.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Give a man fire and he's warm for a day; set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. -found on the web */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:47 No, you don't need a big PC with a comfortable keyboard and screen that doesn't force continual scrolling, but it sure makes life more pleasant and more productive. It never ceases to amaze me how people put up with terrible human factors. Take the typical laptop keyboard - please! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
