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From: miles@vax135.UUCP (Miles Murdocca)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Warning! Televideo 970
Message-ID: <821@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 12:20:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: vax135.821
Posted: Mon Aug 27 12:20:06 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:17:54 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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We have approximately 20 Televideo 970's, both leased and owned.
The first one worked great which fooled us into buying many more.
The problem is that no two Televideo 970's work the same way.  The
SETUP menu differs from the manual that comes with the terminal
(drastically for some).  Worse still, the terminals all seem to
work differently.  They are set up to emulate everything between a
Televideo 950 and a Televideo 970.  Some typical version numbers are:
TVS970/50A (this emulates a 950), TVS970/E, TVS970/D, and TVS970D.
They all need different termcap entries.  We specified Televideo 970
on every purchase order, but got different internals.  It's a nice
machine if /etc/termcap (where UNIX looks to find terminal characteristics)
agrees with the terminal.  To our knowledge and the people we
rent/buy from, there is no way to change this emulation (except to
a pseudo-vt100 which we do not want).

    Miles Murdocca, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ   vax135!miles