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From: zawada@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Paul J Zawada)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: dumber terminals
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Date: 16 Nov 89 02:33:13 GMT
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perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison):
> In article <3026@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> fsimmons@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU
> (Frank Simmons) writes:
> 
>> am looking for a dumb terminal that has no SETUP or HOLD functions ...
>> Ours are being disabled by the users. Any help here?
> 
> I think the old LSI ADM-3A would handle this just fine.  It's been getting
> some net.abuse lately for being SO dumb, but it sounds like that's just what
> you need.

Where I work, we have some ADM-3A's which work well.  Those things are
almost indestructable...  However, in order to bring the users into the 
80's when it comes to terminals, the group that maintains our terminals
took a bunch of Wyse-50s and cut the pc-board trace running to the
Set-up key.  Naturally, they retained a few keyboards with working
set-up keys for use as "maintenance" keyboards.  (The Wyse-50 has
a disconnectable keyboard.)  This set up keeps the users from changing
the terminal configuration, but if something needs to be changed, they just 
grab a keyboard with a working set-up key and temporarily substitute it to make 
appropriate changes...

pjz...

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