Re: Speaking of "doohickeys" . . .

["Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>]

James,

I pulled out my 2488 and you're correct about the underline support.  I had
erroneously rememberd it as being that CGA style "blanks only" underline
character.   It's a bit unusual as the characters g j p q y lack underlines.

The 3rd & 4th sessions are only available only with some of the emulation
types (3477w, 3487-ECB, 3197c) and not the 3487c or 3477c

Firmware: 5487c-1 v5.2


Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Speaking of "doohickeys" . . .


> . . . I went ahead and bought one of the Affirmative Yestation 2488
> terminals that NCLC is selling on eBay, and it arrived yesterday. Although
> I was somewhat disappointed that it could only be set up for 2 different
> display addresses (I was under the impression that it could take 4), and
> that its printer port couldn't talk to the parallel port on our copy
> machine (evidently a copy machine deficiency, not a terminal deficiency),
> and by the fact that it doesn't have as many zoom modes as a real IBM
> 348x, I was pleasantly surprised by the aesthetics: the display is quite
> readable in both 80 and 132 column modes, and it DOES have true underline.
>
> Incidentally, if you connect a mouse, and move the pointer to the status
> line, the status line turns into an action bar, providing access to a
> number of functions.
>
> If you need a cheap, compact twinax device that (so far as I can
> determine) is 100% compatible with KVM switches, go ahead and snap one of
> these things up. I don't think you'll regret it.
>
> --
> JHHL
>
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