Re: Question on Purchasing Terminals (don't laugh...)

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> New job and sort of "back in time". It's a Unix shop, dumping an NCR box
> for an AS/400 (YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH). Unfortunately I got here to late to
> avoid the purchase of a bunch of dumb terminals (from Decision
> Data). They are AMBER screen (not even COLOR) the I-486-A model. We have
> had 1/10th of the total ordered DOA so I am very leery of these things.

> Been a LONG time since I had to look at terminals; last place we were
> BUSY replacing terminals with PC's and had LAN's in place (no LAN's here
> YET...).

> Those of you folks using for terminals - what are you buying and who are
> you buying from/name of contact ? We need to order additional terminals
> and I want something RELIABLE !

boy, the only terminals i think are reliable are made by IBM!  i know there are
many more, but in my opinion, they just aren't as good.  and we had a problem
with decision data terminals crashing the system, if you hit the print key twice
too fast.  but that was years ago, and may not even be relevant.  but you do 
tend
to remember these things.

infowindow II's are pretty good.  if you want a price, let me know, and i'll 
look
it up from our supplier.

nj
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