[rescue] Favorite Terminals

[Linc Fessenden]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> At an insurance adjuster's office today, I saw an IBM InfoWindow terminal.
> Now, I've been mostly happy with the green-and-black Digital VT420 I have.
> I have lots of problems with buffer overflows (lots of backwards ?s) that
> I don't know how to fix, but, generally, it behaves admirably at 9600bps.
> I don't like the keyboard, but I'd definitely used worse.
> 
> The adjuster's InfoWindow had color, reasonable clarity, an IBM clickey
> keyboard, and it certainly didn't appear to be running at 9600bps.
> However, it used a coaxial connection, rather than RS-232.  Do these
> terminals ride directly on thinnet (or token ring) or is this a
> proprietary IBM connector?
> 
> Not intending to start another holy war... what are some of your favorite
> serial terminals?  I'm seriously considering revising my "black-and-white
> XTerm in every room" project to be "swank serial terminal in every room",
> and feel like I'm woefully undereducated on what's out there.
> 
> --Jonathan

Used terminals aren't too hard to come by... Why not get a few different
ones for different rooms?  My favorites are the VT's and the old Unisys
terminals.  I use many different kinds though including the above and
several different Wyse models and ADDS terminals.

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-Linc Fessenden

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