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From: geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with Qume terminals?
Message-ID: <156@callan.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-May-84 19:58:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 19:58:19 1984
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Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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Qume? My god!  Of all the lousy terminals on the market, the Qume is one of
the lousiest.  We evaluated a QVT-102 here (we unfortunately still have it
kicking around).  Even disregarding the habit it has of hanging completely
when it receives certain escape sequences (e.g. anything from X3.64), it has
the *absolute* worst keyboard I have ever used, and that includes manual
typewriters and ASR33's.  The keyboard has many flaws that I will not
belabor, but it has one that all by itself makes the terminal a *TOTAL*
reject:  unless you strike the key with a PRECISELY vertical stroke, the key
will stick (read "jam") and refuse to travel far enough to transmit the
character.  The piston that the key travels on is apparently loose in its
cylinder and jams if it gets off-center:


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	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
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