Personally I prefer a VT420 on my VAXen to a Monitor.
I even end up using a
VT420 on most of my Alpha's.
All of my VAX and Alpha systems use a serial console attached
to a DECserver 90M (even the systems with graphics cards and
monitors attached).
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Eric Dittman
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