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From: discolo@ucsbcsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Are Wyse terminals Wise?
Message-ID: <128@ucsbcsl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 03:20:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 03:20:13 1984
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We bought eight of them about two years ago and ended up selling them
to someone else on campus.  At that time (if my memory serves me
correctly), they were more or less new on the market, and had some nice
features.

The advantages were:
	(1) Detachable keyboard, with a nice touch
	(2) Metal casing for both the monitor and keyboard
	(3) Underlining mode, half intensity and all that jazz
	(4) Fully adjustable swivel monitor
	(5) A reasonable decibel bell level (soft)

The disadvantages were:
	(1) The control, escape, and caps lock (or was it the tab)
	    keys were completely out of place on the left side.  I
	    remember always putting my terminal into capital mode
	    when trying to backspace, and getting pretty frustrated
	    when it took a few tries to press escape after an insert
	    in vi.
	(2) At that time Wyse was having problems with the character
	    set ROMS and the second page of memory.  All that I
	    remember is that funny things occassionally happened
	    in vi when you went in and out of vi.

We had our hardware guru rewire one of the keyboards, which fixed (1).
We also received replacement ROMS which helped fix (2), but never
completely.

In my opinion, my Freedom 100 (distributed by Liberty Electronics)
is one of the best terminal buys today (less than $600 for features
comparable to the Wyse 100).  If you are interested, send me mail
and I will dig up their address.
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