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From: lth@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Lars Thomas Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Televideo's TELECAT-AT: Opinions wanted
Message-ID: <3755@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 89 23:34:02 GMT
References: <44315@linus.UUCP> <796@ur-cc.UUCP> <720@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: lth@drizzle.UUCP (Lars Thomas Hansen)
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Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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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 used the TeleCat for a while and liked it generally well. In particular,
it has a great screen and keyboard, and it is reasonably quiet (put it _under_
the desk, _not_ on it).

I don't know if MSC will run on it; I expect it will. I had few compatibility-
problems with the Cat; I noticed that a particularly popular PC CGA-game
("digger") would not run properly (bad graphics). This suggests some
incompatibility with the graphics card. This is two years ago, and they might
have fixed that by now.

I did run a bit of other software, and expreienced no trouble. Granted,
not all of that software was PC-compatible.

I have used Televideo CP/M and MS-DOS products since '82 or so and I've
generally been pleased; however, they're "Just another clone". If you
can afford the money, I'd rather buy a Wyse.

--lars