Re: "Webulating" RPG/ programmer tools

[qappdsn@xxxxxxx]

Kathleen Kostuck wrote:

> <<snip>>



> I appreciate the advice on how to leverage the laptop with PCMCIA cards and

> a copy of Code/400.  I am seriously thinking about it, because of this
> thread.  But I am also wondering if supplying our own tools is going to be
> a trend in the future, and do we want it to be?
>

Kathleen,

There was an article in the trade rags several years back about a person who
equipped a van as a mobile office complete with desk, file cabinets, terminal,
external power cords, coffee machine, twinax cables etc.

O.K., it's before "have modem, will travel", and the person was not  in a
concentrated metropolitan area, but IMO the point was: "what ever it takes".

As a consultant (outsider) in some places I just mosey on in and break the 
bronco
with whatever is at hand....that's what THEY want....in other places they expect
me to kick in the door with the guns blazing...O.K. I can do that too.

I'm just operating solo out of my home with a loose association of other
freelancers but I have 4 land lines 2 cell lines and a  3 PC network with an 
ISDN
connection to the internet: a 3xplus card on one machine with a UDS 9600 baud
modem to get in by ECS lines, 3164 emulator for ASCII connection @ 56K on
another, Linux runs the ISDN on the third and I'm still waiting for laptops to
come down in price for when I have to appear in 3D.

Yes...professionals do provide their own tools.

With all do respect,
James W. Kilgore
qappdsn@ibm.net

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