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From: ward@eplrx7.UUCP (ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Televideo's TELECAT-AT: Opinions wanted
Message-ID: <151@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 15:20:59 GMT
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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 had the misfortune of programming for a company which had just started
repairing Televideo computers.  As a result, I had to program on Televideo
At's for about 10 months(then I quit).  The screen is very nice on the
Televideo and the keyboard is better than average; HOWEVER, the hard disks
stink.  We bought about 30 Televideos for the project I was working on, 
and at least five of the hard disks(20M) crashed within the first month.
I think one monitor was bad in the lot.

The general consensus was that Televideos are unreliable.  The company
still repairs Televideos, but they use Compaqs for there projects.

I also seem to remember that there EGA card was not 100% compatible.

Rick
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