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From: Allon.Stern@SOLARVAX.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Don't buy the 603!
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Date: 3 Aug 89 18:47:53 GMT
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Well, the folks down the hall from me bought six Visual 603 terminals --
biggest mistake they ever made.  They were in the shop more than they
were in use.  They highly recommend that you DON'T buy Visuals.
One terminal you might consider is a MicroTerm FE 4560.  They are very
nice white on black terminals which do Tek 4014 emulation.  The only
problem is that there is a design flaw which causes the power supply
to fry one year after you buy them, but MicroTerm has probably fixed
that bug by now -- ask them.  (The terminals come with a 2 year warranty -
all five of our microterms fried within a two week period -- they were
fixed under warranty).  Other than that, they have been dependable.

                           - -= Allon =- -

Circular reasoning: see Reasoning, circular.

Reasoning, circular: see Circular reasoning.