SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.arpa (07/23/86)
From: <SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.Arpa> (Richard C. Secrist) Date: Tue, 22-JUL-1986 22:43 EST To: INFO-MICRO@BRL-VGR.ARPA Message-ID: <[OAK.SAINET.MFENET].7CBD8BE0.008F251D.SECRIST> Header-Disclaimer: I don't like my headers either. Quote: "May your future be limited only by your dreams." -- Christa McAuliffe Organization: Science Applications Int'l. Corp., Oak Ridge, Tenn., USA CompuServe-ID: [71636,52] X-VMS-Mail-To: MICRO > From: glenn%c3pe.uucp@BRL.ARPA > Subject: Re: Request for comments on Wyse terminals > Date: 21 Jul 86 23:53:57 GMT > > In article <523@quad1.UUCP>, jpm@quad1.UUCP (John McMamee) writes: > > don't like the keyboard, and I could never find a way to turn > >off the status line at the top of the screen (which drives me > >nuts). My advice... > > To turn off the status line, get into the setup mode and set > "status" to "off". > > (I personaly don't mind the keyboard, preferring it by far over > the Wyse 30. I'm rather fond of the Wyse 75, but that costs > more... And it's even less obvious how to turn off the status > line: Control-right-arrow toggles it.) > > D. Glenn Arthur Jr. > U.S. Army Corps of Engineers > ..!seismo!dolqci!hqhomes!glenn This is coming to you live from a Wyse-85, which is a DEC VT-220 clone, and I love it ! I like the keyboard and the monitor, and they were relatively inexpensive compared to other clones (or the real thing). Unlike the C-ITOH 220+ clones, they REALLY do 19200, and you can even do things like turn off the COMPOSE key. My only gripes are that a shifted delete key sends an ASCII CANcel, which in EDT blows away the whole line, and that Control-Space does not produce a null. My site has bought about 15 of them: not a DOA in the bunch, and two "power-on reset failiures" (requiring servicing) in about 10 months of 24-hour/day power on, 6-8 hours constant use, about half quite intensively in bad environments (our WP people with cigarettes, Coke, Frito-fingers, etc.). The point of all this is that if I bought a little board or something like that I won't hesitate to buy a Wyse, and that if you're also a professional DECophobe, that the WY-85 is a pretty good deal. r c s SECRIST%OAK.SAInet.MFEnet@LLL-MFE.Arpa