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From: da@bvax.UUCP (Dave Sellers)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: HDS terminals
Message-ID: <312@bvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 09:12:59 EST
Article-I.D.: bvax.312
Posted: Mon Nov  9 09:12:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 00:02:13 EST
References: <7@bbking.PRC.Unisys.COM> <7739@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
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Summary: HDS TERMINALS

In article <7739@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, mroz@hudson.steinmetz (peter a mroz) writes:
> 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 have about 800 HDS terminals (HDS200) and have also have reliability
problems with the fly-back unit burning up (yes smoke). The distributer
here has supplied new fly-back units and the company has now brought out
the HDS2000 unit that has new "guts" that is a fix to the reliability
problem.

I still haven't found (around here) a true dual port terminal that can
support that number of options these VDU's can. I won't list them here
but I'm a believer.

Dave Sellers