[aprssig] Xastir on Windows, was Re: Slashdot article

[Robert Bruninga]

> > For what its worth, APRSdos can be built to boot and
> > run with local maps from a floppy disk only...
>
>Most current laptops don't have floppy drives anymore.
>If you want to boot from a removable medium, it has to be 
>a bootable CD ROM.

But the topic was come-as-you-are packet response to an 
emergency.  Yes, most people on this sig have nothing but 
the latest laptops.   But looking across the spectrum of 
come-as-you-are old-fud hams,  I bet far more of them 
would show up and be willing to dedicate an old laptop 
with a floppy drive to protable APRS then those with a CD.

Especially if they are going to leave it at the site as a loaner
for the duration of the emergency...

de WB4APR.