My history with an HP200LX (a small computer).
1980. I played a flight simulator by a PC in Tokyo.
1993. I got an HP100LX.
1995. I got an HP200LX. This is a 300g computer!
It's much smaller than the usual laptop PC(digital).
1996. I started Niftyserve like Compuserve in US.
It was not TCP/IP. It was a text service.
But I could have many talks on Niftyserve by HP200LX
with a simple MODEM (AIWA).
The connection speed was 9600bps.
1997 (Feb.) From a hotel room in San Francisco, I could
use email by Niftyserve via Compuserve even the parity
bit was different to each others. (the parity bit of
Compuserve was 7bit. But the parity bit of Niftyserve
was 8bit.) I could help my colleagues who were working
for a company (Ryoyo Electro co. in Tokyo) by email
then.
1997. By any public (grey) telephone in Japan, I was
using email by 200LX with a MODEM with 4 rechargeable
NimH batteries (eneloop) by serial standard (RS-232C).
As not yet released 3G/4G and also WiFi (by ADSL or
optical fiber) in 1997, however I could use email
anywhere in Japan and also any countries in the world
on the earth.
Even I was a heavy user of HP200LX, it was enough to
recharge the two NimH batteries once a week. Sometime I
could use the 300g computer for three weeks without any
charging.
Now I want to ask you "What is WiFi"?
But before having the question, we go can back to the
history of the computer science.
1999 (Oct.) While I was staying in Florida for Novell
conference (Around 2,000 sales and sales engineers from
all over the world), I connected to Niftyserve by the
MODEM (by RS-232C) at a hotel room.
2000 (April) We visited at Siemens HQ in Munich Germany.
Because my boss of Siemens Tokyo took me to Germany. I
could connect to my email box by my HP200LX (cf. RAM
2MB) from Munich.
I didn't need a laptop PC till 2002 for my travelling.
At home, I was using an HP Desktop PC (Vectra) with
56kbps MODEM. (My colleague of Novell Japan was using
ISDN 64kbps for connecting to the internet)
I had been using my HP200LX since 1995 till 2012. It
was for seventeen years. Especially I loved Phone book
application. This is an application of DataBase. I
learned DB basic by HP200LX. You should learn DB anyhow.
For example, twitter is a nice DB.
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2003. I was working for a logistics consultant office
in Tokyo. In November 2003, they started using WiFi at
the office. I quit my job in December 2003. (
Coincidently I could quit from WiFi radiation then.)
2004 (March). We (our family) were staying in Bali for
a month. I was making my diary with photos every day
for a month. I was updating by ftp client by 28.8kbps
MODEM. (An internet cafe gave me a dialup account &
password.) The dialup connection was much stable and
faster than the LAN connection in Bali in 2004. My
laptop was having a heavy weight as made in 1996. It
was Windows 95. (9 years ago). It was second hands.
2004 - 2006. I was using Windows2000 connected by a LAN
cable by ADSL in Tokyo. The connection speed was around
1.5Mbps.
Since 2006 till 2011, I had been using optical fiber.
My seven PCs are connected by LAN cable in Wakayama
prefecture (the west area of Japan). The optical fiber
network was very stable. I got only one trouble for
five years.
2011 (May). We moved from Japan to Bali Indonesia.
I connected my Laptop by LAN cable at an internet
service place. For making a reservation for AirAsia
ticket, it took for 45 minutes. Oh..
2012. I bought three USB MODEMs for 3G. After that I
bought SmartFren. (in Bali)
2015. I made a contract for our optical fiber in Ubud
Bali Indonesia. We have been using our five computers
connected by LAN cables since 2015. I'm using a Linux
Mint, a Windows7, a MAC OSX and two Raspberry.
2017 (April). I bought an Android (ASUS) for using
Whatsapp. But I never use WiFi. I connect to the
internet by 4G only for one minutes, five times a day.
The total time for connecting by 4G is only 5 minutes/
day. Because I'm sensitive to the radiation by WiFi and
also 4G/5G.
99.9% of MAC users, iPhone users and also Android users
are using WiFi in the world.
But Raspberry Pi has a LAN port even such a small sized
PC! It is so nice. Thanks to the Raspberry engineers of
UK!
Without WiFi, I'm comfortable with my computer/
smartphone in Bali Indonesia.
With WiFi, I'm uncomfortable. If somebody has a
smartphone turning on the WiFi/4G (or both of them!) at
our studio, always I could ask him/her to turn off the
WiFi/4G. Because I could feel the radiation of WiFi/4G
in 15 minutes at least.
At our studio, my smartphone could catch the WiFi
signal from seven or eight WiFi routers in neighbors
like a villa or a hotel.
One day, two years ago, I couldn't sleep at night
because of the radiation by the WiFi routers in
neighbors in Ubud.
So since two years ago, I have been having to go back
to my second place in the north of Tegalallang every
night for having a sleep. It takes 40 minutes by car
from Ubud to the mountain area.
One of my German friend (actually she is a piano
student at our studio) visited at Fiji one month ago.
After she came back to Ubud, she told me by her louder
voice. "I could sleep incredibly well at Fizzy! I
thought there wasn't WiFi router." I think it's true.
MAC doesn't have a LAN port. So I bought a LAN adapter
for my MAC.
My smartphone doesn't have a LAN port of course. So I'm
using 4G. Never WiFi.
Around 65% of the internet users are now using
smartphone only, I think. They don't have a PC anymore.
5G network has started in Shanghai city in this year
2019. Rapidly they will expand the 5G area in the city,
in China and all over the world till 2023.
Shanghai Becomes World's First City With 5G Network
Coverage: Report
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/shanghai-becomes-worlds-
first-city-with-5g-network-coverage-report-2015195
Then humans don't need optical fiber anymore. We use 5G
only.
People might laugh LAN cable is old fashioned.
However, how about the radiation by 5G technology?
Maybe it would be stronger than the 4G signal.
I might say good-bye for everybody then.
I searched by google one year ago. And I got some
information regarding WiFi radiation as follows.
Weapons expert warns Wi-Fi in schools could cause birth
defects
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Weapons+expert+
warns+schools+could+cause+birth+defects/3441143/story.
html#ixzz0yLw9IMGQ
WiFi banned from pre-school childcare facilities in a
bold move by French government
http://www.naturalnews.com/
043695_electrosensitivity_wifi_French_government.html
Controversial Paper Suggests Wi-Fi Exposure More
Dangerous To Kids Than Previously Thought
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2015/01/13/
study-suggests-wi-fi-exposure-more-dangerous-to-kids-
than-previously-thought/#634e81ce1bd4
Why children absorb more microwave radiation of WiFi
than adults: The consequences
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S2213879X14000583
'Wi-fi refugees' shelter in West Virginia mountains
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14887428
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California government buried the truth about cell phone
radiation causing brain cancer FULL TEXT of once-
secret document reveals how EMFs penetrate "deeper
into a child's brain
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-03-03-california-
government-buried-the-truth-about-cell-phone-radiation-
causing-brain-cancer-full-text-secret-document-emfs-
penetrate-deeper-into-a-childs-brain.html
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Now I'm dreaming using my 200LX with a simple MODEM in
the world. It was a perfect mobile computer. The weight
was 300g. We could use a 200LX without battery charging
for about two weeks. People say that the keyboard is so
small. But for me, it was unforgettable good touch. I
made a lot of text by HP200LX by English and also
Japanese language (Font: hiragana, katakana and kanji
letters).
While I was writing an email reply, the network
connection was disconnected by the terminal application
(KTX). So I could have time to write and edit without
any disturbing by a new message from somebody. (However
even now in 2019, while I'm writing a reply for
Whatsapp, I disconnect from 4G network.)
We got Windows95 in 1995. Since this year, most of all
companies had started focusing TCP/IP instead of the
host computing.
Compuserve and Niftyserve were using host computers as
well. But they saw the maintenance cost for a host
computer for one year. They could recognize and
understand that they should switch to TCP/IP as soon as
possible.
From 1990 till 1995, there were nice UNIX vendors like
SUN Microsystems, HP, IBM and DEC. A UNIX machine was
very expensive, but it can be used by UNIX on TCP/IP.
In mean whiles, they were thinking PCs were like toys,
neither does a PC handle TCP/IP because TCP/IP was too
heavy to run.
But the CPU progression by Intel and Windows95/NT/2000
OS by Microsoft changed the world computing environment.
Since 1995, a PC has been able to run TCP/IP till 2019,
this year.
In 1996, I heard a lovely story from my boss who was
working for DEC Japan (Tokyo). DEC was keeping their
VMS as their UNIX system till around 1992. It was a
good system but DEC has gone. Then some engineers moved
from DEC to Microsoft. They started making Windows (
like a UNIX. It was not for Windows95) there. After
they made it, they felt it was the next version of VMS.
Please think about the alphabet order. The next letter
of V is W of Windows. The next letter of M is N. The
next letter of S is T. Yes they made a name of the new
Operating System as WNT (Windows NT) as the next
version of VMS of DEC.
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In Ubud Bali, Indonesia, I'm using Linux Mint and also
Raspberry by LAN cables with optical fiber. I love
Linux Mint and Raspberry.
I'm using an Android (smartphone) for Whatsapp by 4G.
Never used by WiFi.
But I never forget some scenes while I was using my
HP200LX. If I thought about my HP200LX, I could feel
happiness.
Thank you everybody. Osamu in Bali
Studio Spoon
No.11 Gang Nyuh Sudamala
Nyuh Kuning, Ubud Bali
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