8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
8:11 p.m.
On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I honestly have no idea, I have assumed they did the VT520 and
VT525's themselves. I've used some VT520's, and my primary
complaint has been that they typically seem to have come with PC
keyboards. Rather worthless when you need to get into the setup
menu! Though considering they came with Auspex fileservers this
might have been done on purpose to keep people out of the menus!
Indeed, my VT520 was originally shipped with an Auspex. It was
shuffled into other duties (and quickly into the trunk of my car)
when we wired the machine's console port up to a remote console
server during setup. When I got it home and fired it up, I was so
offended that I very nearly took it back to work.
Nearly. ;)
Last I checked, you can still buy VT520's from
Boundless (they
bought DEC's
terminal business).
Weren't they originally made by a different company and
relabeled & sold by DEC? I seem to recall that the VT420 was the
last DEC-built terminal. Which makes perfect sense, as the models
after that are utter garbage. The VT520's didn't seem that bad to me, but
then I haven't used one
on a DEC system, so wasn't coming close to taxing their capability.
Don't bother. They are garbage. The VT320s and VT420 are the
ultimate evolution of the ANSI ASCII terminal in my opinion.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL