RE: Dumb terminals floppies?

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

That's interesting. Does it mean perhaps that the lifting mechanism was
not deemed good enough for the home market and was therefore dumped on
Europe? Or is that just my cynical nature? :-)

Dave Kahn, TCO, Kazakstan
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kahn@tengizchevroil.com   (to November 25)
dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk (from November 26)


>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
>Sent:  Saturday, November 08, 1997 10:13 AM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: Dumb terminals floppies?
>
>At 10:36 PM 11/8/97 +0500, you wrote:
>>I should have asked this question about 3 years ago. I keep meaning to
>>but somehow I never got round to it until now.
>>
>>Has anyone ever seen a 3487 type dumb terminal that stayed where it was
>>put? I don't think I've ever been to an installation where these have
>>been working properly. The lifting mechanism usually seems to work,
>>though not in every case, but the tilting mechanism never does. If you
>>raise the screen to the correct working height there is a sad gentle
>>hissing sound as it rotates slowly backwards to point at the ceiling.
>
>In North America, most 3487s were sold without the lifting mechanism.
>
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