Re: New Risc and Decision Data Terminals

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John:

I seem to remember having that kind of a problem with old DDC terminals
that used to be on a S/36 and moved to a 400... had something to do with
the timing tolerances.

Essentially, we swapped the DDC terminal with an IBM one and it worked
fine.

david

> I have a client that just cut over to a new 170 Risc box running 4.3.  There
> are a number of older decision data 387 color terminals that seem to be
> failing with device errors.  We have switched them with some IBM
> (naturally!) terminals and the problems seem to go away.  Has anyone else
> had or heard of this problem.  There are a lot of Decision Data terminals
> out there, I can't believe the all have to be replaced!
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