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Re: comments on Liberty Freedom 100?

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From: Allen Hartley
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 1990 04:45
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I worked for the Digital Support Group for three and one half years at a
university.  We repaired all computing equipment for the university and
other government agencies.  The computing center dumped all the Qume
QVT's for the Freedom 100's because "they had more function keys and
were programmable."  The Freedoms were DOGS!  We would go up EVERY week
to pick up five to ten of them for repair.  We would see a Qume in our 
shop once or twice a year.  They (the Freedom's) had an assortment of
problems - power supply, loss of firmware, loss of CRT, loss of keyboard
firmware, etc.  After this weekly pickup had continued for a time, the
university decided to contact Liberty to return all the terminals and get
their money back.  The university got stuck with the DOGGIE terminals and
Liberty got placed on the vender "black list".  If you like pain and
suffering - buy a Liberty.  If you want a good dependable terminal buy a
Qume.  I picked mine up for $275.00 three years ago (it was two years
old then) and it's still going strong.
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Subject: Re: comments on Liberty Freedom 100?
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