12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
3:21 a.m.
Of course, shipping for, say a hundred VT520s is
significantly higher than for those modern replacements - even when you add in the (now
LCD) screen. ?Oh that's right, you can just go down to Best Buy (which rarely is) to
buy the screens....
I doubt shipping costs would be so much of an issue - VT520s, if they
are anything like VT420s, are not very heavy. If company X needs
several hundred dumb terminals spread around in their system, I bet
they would have enough of their own shipping going on, and the VTs
could hang on the sides of the trucks for free.
That's not to say I don't have a personal
preference for the originals - I have mostly VT420s at home, and we're refurbishing a
bunch of VT100s and VT52s here at work. ?-- Ian
OK, I will say it - VT420s suck.
--
Will