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zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Paul Zawada) writes:

>You must not have any WYSE terminals.  I own three WYSE-60s and two of 
>them blew a power supply when I turned them on.  The third one hasn't 
>blown yet because I rarely turn it off..  (When I leave town, etc...)  
>I've seen many more WYSEs with this problem.  WYSE power supplies are 
>notorious for being poorly designed and not able to deal with a lot of 
>stress.  I don't think the problem is due to expension either.  I believe
>the problem with WYSE supplies is that their designs are too close to 
>the tolerances of some of their parts.  (The turn-on transients excede
>some of the specs and gradually wear some the parts down.)

	It's starting to look like Wyse just doesn't offer the reliability
one might expect from a market leader. We purchased a dozen of their 
150 model terminals and suffered failures in three of them in the first few
months. That was quite unlike our earlier experience with Altos-labeled
termnals (which I thought were manufactured by Wyse) some years ago. *Those*
units were so reliable we didn't bother with maintenance contracts. Our
most recent purchases involved Hewlett Packard's 700/60 terminals. They've
proven more capable than the Wyse, and none have failed so far. Quite
nicely priced to boot.
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