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From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: HDS terminals
Message-ID: <1439@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 00:46:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  7 00:46:19 1987
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Reply-To: kevin@ttidcb.UUCP (Kevin Carothers)
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>In <7739@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, mroz@hudson.steinmetz (peter a mroz) writes:
>> Two years ago we (at GE CRD) bought about 20 HDS terminals.  ...
>> However, we had severe reliability problems and ended up shipping them all
>> back to the manufacturer.

>Well, maybe you got a bad batch; the HDS on my desk at home is as solid as a
>brick, and is my second-favourite terminal, surpassed only by the incomparable
>Ann Arbor Ambassador on my desk at work.

Bad batch my butt. 
HDS terminals were the bane of my existence for over a year until all
of them (approx. 15) just gave up the ghost. You name it, it broke.
There's nothing like ten (practically brand-new) terminals all-at-once 
starting to lose sync (the infamous star-trek mode display), and emitting 
that high-pitch squeal that would have been a standard torture during 
the Spanish Inquisition.

Oh yes, and how could I forget the bases coming off of the 
display? 

I guess it's the old addage: 
    "State of the art engineering? State of the art problems..." 

Gimme a vt100 on my desk anytime.

Whoops! there goes my vertical hold
Whoops! there goes my vertical hold
Whoops! there goes my vertical hold
Whoops! there goes my vertical hold