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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: HDS terminals
Message-ID: <2096@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 17:43:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 17:43:38 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 03:59:34 EST
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Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY
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in article <7739@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, mroz@hudson.steinmetz says:
+--
| 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.  
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We're in the same boat as GE was -- about a year ago we purchased 8
HDS-2200 (VT-220 compatible), and 1 HDS-2200GX (VT-220/Tek 4014).  Almost
all of them have been back to the shop for at least a new power supply.
Several have had to have either the processor board or video board also
replaced.

Functionally and ergonomically they are very good -- reliable they are not!
-- 
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