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From: malloy@ittral.UUCP (William P. Malloy)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with Qume terminals?
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 13:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 13:09:39 1984
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A couple of points.  First the QVT-102 is the dumbest of all Qume terminals.
Actually it's just plain stupid.  It's meant to emulate a Lear Seigler ADM3a
so you can just imagine how really dumb it is.  (or is it a Televideo 910??)

On the other hand the QVT-103 is a full ANSI X3.64 compatible terminal.  Right
down to being as dumb as a VT-100.  We had a Beta test version here and only
found one bug with it, and they were fixing it.  Personally I prefer the
QVT-108 which is *VERY* good, is quite bright, and will really handle 19200
baud.  It has 11 function keys (22 if you like to shift) that will store up to
eight characters.  Very convient.  Unfortanately the function keys are the only
part that don't handle 19200, they drop characters.  Thus I have to use 9600.

Now as to keyboards, yes *ALL* of them STICK.  Although they're not quite as
bad as you said.  I'm using one now, and they don't stick that much.  They
could go a *LONG* way to improving their sales if they'd only get a better
keyboard.  Please note, it doesn't stick-DOWN anymore then any good keyboard.
The problem is sometimes the keys WON'T go down when you push them.  As I bang
the crap out of keyboards, it doesn't slow me down at all.  And given the
only alternative here is the VT-100, I'll take the QVT-108 anyday.  Maybe
if everyone complained LOUD enough Qume, (they're on the net as qumix) would
hear and fix their *DAMN* keyboards.

NOTE: ITT owns Qume as well as ITT Telecom so I'm not a totally uninterested
observer.  I don't own any stock, nor do I have any intention of buying any.

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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are my own, and not necessarily 
	    those of my employer, nor of any sane rational human being.

Address: William P. Malloy, ITT Telecom, B & CC Engineering Group, Raleigh NC
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