Re: Question on Purchasing Terminals (don't laugh...)

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:22 PM 11/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>New job and sort of "back in time". It's a Unix shop, dumping an NCR box
>for an AS/400 (YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH). Unfortunately I got here to
>late to avoid the purchase of a bunch of dumb terminals (from Decision
>Data). They are AMBER screen (not even COLOR) the I-486-A model. We have
>had 1/10th of the total ordered DOA so I am very leery of these things.
>
>Been a LONG time since I had to look at terminals; last place we were
>BUSY replacing terminals with PC's and had LAN's in place (no LAN's here
>YET...).
>
>Those of you folks using for terminals - what are you buying and who are
>you buying from/name of contact ? We need to order additional terminals
>and I want something RELIABLE !
>
>Might be best to contact me directly/off list to avoid boring or
>irritating others :-)
>
We use 3488 and 3489 workstations where we use dumb workstations.  This
requires you to purchase a PC display.

Al




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