Mark, typing a few commands is just about allone can do on a traditional blackberry with a screen half the size of an iPhone. Even then the sensation is like watching a football game through a letterbox :-) Hans Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:30:37 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE<hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] PDP Ignorance On 15 Jul 2011, at 12:38, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Mark, running a vt100 80 x 24 screen on a blackberry (not a Torch) is problematic. OTOH 20 years ago I wouldn't have dreamt of being able to power down an XP1000 sitting on my couch and using a phone as a remote terminal! Oh don't get me wrong, it's cool that you can do it and I have used it a few times. For basic terminal stuff its great. I have my HP Microserver set up to allow SSH from external IPs via myy firewall so I can SSH there then Telnet into my SimH VAX from my phone :D On the same count however, a lot of DEC text based apps like EVE and Notes (I think?) Use mimetic pad and F-key functions which are a struggle on phone-based clients. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson