dennis@virtech.UUCP (Dennis P. Bednar) (08/17/89)
In article <5992@lynx.UUCP>, m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes: > > Don't buy a Wyse 60. They suck. Sure, they have lot's of intelligence, but > reliability is nonexistant. There's also this nifty feature: when the > host starts sending lots of stuff at high baud rates, the terminal begins > *ignoring the keyboard*. The Wyse technical support people I've talked > to admit this, but they don't think it's a problem. What a laugh. > I have a wy60 running at 38400, with XON/XOFF flow control enabled (in both directions), and sometimes when I press ^U repeatedly in vi, the screen messes up royally, and I have to pause, then press ^L to refresh the screen. Is this another symptom of the problem? The problem was not noticed when we had BT 368 using an ICC serial card. However, now that we have upgraded our machine to ISC and now that my Wy60 is connected to a Maxpeed serial card, I have noticed the problem. Maybe the intercharacter delay for the Maxpeed is occasionally too short in time for the wy60 ?
m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) (08/19/89)
>In article <5992@lynx.UUCP>, m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes: >> Don't buy a Wyse 60. They suck. Here's an update in a relevant vein: one of our 60's just made a loud "ZING" noise and blew out. Just like the rest. This one had been serviced recently. And no, our power is not "unstable". We have countless other devices that run happily without smoking. -- Mike McNally Lynx Real-Time Systems uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5 phone: 408 370 2233 Where equal mind and contest equal, go.
epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (08/20/89)
In article <6021@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes: >Here's an update in a relevant vein: one of our 60's just made a loud >"ZING" noise and blew out. Just like the rest. This one had been >serviced recently. > >And no, our power is not "unstable". We have countless other devices >that run happily without smoking. San Francisco State University just received a donation of about 5 dozen Wyse 60s... I'm told that about a dozen have already died and I smelled the smoke from one all the way down the hall... Now, would someone please explain to me why the DELETE key toggles between FDX and BLK mode when using VT100 emulation? Being able to send DELETE is somewhat essential for VAX/VMS systems... -=EPS=-