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Need a new terminal

#2315
From: Mike McNally
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 22:24
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My Wyse 60 just emitted smoke and died.  For the second time.

The eternal question:

    Are there any terminals out there that

    * are cheap
    * have reasonable intelligence
    * don't use up a space when changing attributes
    * have decent keyboards without lots of stupid extra keys that
      don't do anything useful
    * have multiple screen pages that can be accessed easily
    * are free from incredibly stupid "features" useless to someone
      using a UNIX system
    * don't emit smoke very often
      
Wyse 60's would be fine, if they weren't so damn wimpy, and if the CPU
could keep up with keyboard interrupts while receiving 19.2K data.
Wyse 50's with extra memory are almost good enough, but the keyboards
have massive bounce problems.  I've looked at some Qume terminals, but
Qume keyboards suck also.  Maybe I'm just too picky; I have used
terminals that I've liked, though (Wicat used to make one, but I think
somebody in management found out that users liked them, so they changed
the keyboard completely).

-- 
Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5                    phone: 408 370 2233

            Where equal mind and contest equal, go.
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Subject: Need a new terminal
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Date: 14 Feb 89 22:24:57 GMT
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