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From: mroz@hudson.steinmetz (peter a mroz)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: HDS terminals
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 12:26:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 12:26:03 1987
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: Don't buy them!

In article <7@bbking.PRC.Unisys.COM> rmarks@bbking.PRC.Unisys.COM
(richard marks) writes:
>Is anyone familiar with a firm called "Human Design Terminals"
>or their products - the HDS terminal line?  Please give me an
>opinion of their products.

Two years ago we (at GE CRD) bought about 20 HDS terminals.  We needed
VT100/VT220/Tektronix 4010/4014 functionality which the HDS-xx (I
can't remember the model number) seemed to provide.  However, we had
severe reliability problems and ended up shipping them all back to the
manufacturer.  We decided to buy GraphOn GO-220's and GO-230's.  I've had
my GO-230 for a year now with zero problems.  

I looked into terminals for VT100/Tektronix capabilities a little
while ago, as GE CRD wanted to standardize what equipment was bought.
My recommendations were for the Tektronix 4205, 4207 in the "high"
price range, and the GraphOn GO-230 and GO-250 in the "low" price
range.

The address for GraphOn is

	GraphOn Corp
	Tower One, Fifth Floor
	1901 South Basco9m Ave.
	Cambell, CA 95008
	800-472-7466
	408-371-8500


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Peter Mroz
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