Date   : Thu, 12 Jul 1990 07:50:16 CDT
From   : "Andy Stewart, Reference Librarian" <C3038B@UMRVMB.UMR.EDU>
Subject: Antique Osborne 1 as a terminal

Would anyone be willing to share the agonies, ecstasies, and other
practical advice as to BEGINNING to get the hardware/software which I
will need so I can access an IBM system from my home (Osborne 1--SSSD)
computer.  I am not an assembly language programmer--much more the user
of applications programs.  My main intended use is tracking netmail (our
library catalog is also online through the mainframe.  Is it asking too
much to even consider using the Osborne as a terminal for other
mainframe applications (like SAS, for example)?  Any advice would be
appreciated.  If the whole question is too fundamental, I would be
willing to take answers directly and summarize for the net.

I assume that the Simtel server will have numerous Osborne public domain
programs/utilities, and am anxious to search that out, but will save my
questions on THAT topic for another posting.

Thank you much--Andy Stewart, C3038b at umrvmb.umr.edu