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From: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Televideo's TELECAT-AT: Opinions wanted
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Date: 6 Feb 89 17:11:36 GMT
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Reply-To: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
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In article <44315@linus.UUCP> ecp@mbunix.mitre.b.org (Pivnik) writes:
>Does anyone have some experience with the TELECAT-AT from Televideo
>Systems?  Is it a reliable machine?  How much should one expect to pay for
>such a system?  They claim it is IBM compatible.  Has anyone found
>contradictions to this?  Will Microsoft Quick-C / 5.0 run on it?

I have a Televideo AT sitting right here.  This is from before it hit the
retail market - a company that I used to work for bought 'em for OEM
purposes.

Anyway, so it's been terrific.  The machine is 4 years old now and still as
good as new (except for 1 disk controller failure).  Our company bought in
bulk and had several failures of the controllers, but reported them all back
to Televideo and they claim they've fixed 'em.

The only other problem that we've had is with the BIOS.  The latest revision
is Rev H of this BIOS (or so I'm told), but I'm still using Rev D because
Rev H doesn't seem to work with WordStar 5.0.  Rev F, the only other one I've
seen inbetween, didn't work with something but I don't remember what.

I have no complaints with Rev D though ... I don't know what they've tried
to fix.

I have never had any problems getting things to work.  I'd say it's IBM
compatible with the right BIOS (we've heard nothing back from Televideo on
the Rev H situation yet).

I'm also making an assumption that the retail Telecat-AT is the same machine.
I suppose it might not be.

Josh
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