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I just saw a demo of the new Teletype Model 5425 terminal.  It looks just
like the 5410/5420 series, but the keyboard mimics a vt100.  Actually, it
electrically mimics the vt100 (with vt52 mode) completely, except for the
double height, double width letters.  I believe the cost is somewhere in
the vicinity of $800 (?) for the whole terminal.

A nice option is a 300/1200 baud "built-in" autodial modem (Rixon protocol).
Hard and soft PF keys on the keyboard access the terminal, printer, and
optional dialer set-up menus.  I *think* the dialer is about $2-300.  Oh
yeah, it dialed both pulse and tone interactively and stored 5 numbers.

I played with it and it worked quite well.  But the "vt100" test came when
our VAX/VMS gurus went down and ran some GENRAD test system software on it
that uses both vt100 and vt52 mode heavily.  It performed flawlessly, they
said.

All the multi-windowing features of the 5420 are there, as well as three
(count them, three) orderable screen phosphors - amber, white, and green.

I hate to sound like a damn commercial, but it's gratifying to see them
come around like they have and make some really decent stuff.  Nice
going, folks.  Keep it up (and the prices down).

						Randy King
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