Mountains to big to climb

I am in the process of looking for gainful employment.

As a requirement for the interview process I was asked to bring my own
laptop with all my development software on it OR supply them with the
software so that their IT department could install it.

I do not own nor can I afford a laptop at this time.

I do not know how many of you out there support your own computer(s), but I
have my tools strung across multiple machines and multiple OS's with
databases, web servers, perl, php, jsp, asp etc.  I asked if I could use a
browser during the demonstration to point to my home or production
environments?  NO

I asked if I could bring printouts?  NO

They wanted to see me create a web page while they watched.

Is this normal for a job interview?

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