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spamd Premium join:2001-04-22 Rockford, IL ·Insight Communicat..	Something doesn't seem right... 1990?? In 1990 4 million people? What the heck were they running, DOS? Was telecommuting even a word back then? But then again I still do own a Tandy laptop and it still works! As long as you don't mind the 8" one color screen and the 2 3.5" floppy drives. -- When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane.
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In 1990 4 million people? What the heck were they running, DOS? Was telecommuting even a word back then?

Yes, yes, and yes. I telecommuted with a DOS based machine in the early 80s - a Compaq "portable" with a tiny 5-inch orange/black screen with 2 5.25" floppies. It was more like a suitcase than a modern-day laptop. Using an external modem (1200bps IIRC) I could dial directly to the mainframe.

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In 1990 4 million people? What the heck were they running, DOS? Was telecommuting even a word back then?

By the 90's DOS was sophisticated with task switchers, etc. Windows 2 was released in '87, OS/2 1.1EE '88, NetWare dates back to '86. Tons of different connection/emulation software packages. DBase (as an example) came out on Apple IIGS in '88.

I telecommuted or 'dialed in' since the mid-80's. ASCII-Express and mainframe or Sys/38 terminal emulation later. Wyse terminal emulation... It was always better than driving in for support in the middle of the night. Kept two phone lines for decades....by the 90's had one of those challenge-response password generator cards....

You could do some of this with Apple IIe's, early OS/2 (v1.1EE) had mainframe and terminal support, too in the Enhanced Edition along with the first version of DB/2... ......it was slow, but we didn't know better then....
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