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From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NCD-16 X Terminal Reviewed (not so long)
Summary: good equipment
Keywords: ncd x-terminal
Message-ID: <549@drd.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 13:15:19 GMT
References: <13566@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: lawrence@tusun2.knet.UTulsa.Edu
Organization: DRD Corporation, Tulsa, OK (would you believe so-so?)
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We purchased an NCD with 1.5M and got it within two weeks of order AND
at a discount because we are an ISV and signed up for their software
developers program which is VERY nice.  Check into it if you qualify.

I bought the thing as a software development station for a mechanical
engineer working on my project who will be doing simulation model
development.  I thought to myself, "Give him the x-terminal -- he won't
mind.  He doesn't need a full fledged workstation."  Well, I've got a 4M
3/50 that runs like a dog and a 3/260C that runs even doggier and he's
got this nifty compact terminal with ultra-sharp resolution and nimble
mouse (with NO PAD -- I'd like that...).  TWM 5.0 screams on this
beastie (resizes, moves, etc.).  Needless to say, I wouldn't mind having
the machine on my desk.

Setup was effortless (well, nearly so.  Once I figured out the 30
decimal was 1D hex vice 1E ...duh 'TFTP error 1, file not found'.  We're
using the downloadable server so that updates will be cheaper).

The mech engineer figured out the menus and the network setup stuff.
All I had to do was supply the internet numbers for font server, name
server and server server.

We haven't tried to make it work with xdm yet.

All in all (after two weeks of use), we're pretty happy with it.