13 Nov
2002
13 Nov
'02
12:25 p.m.
David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Speaking of terminal servers, I picked up a pair of
Datability Vista
VCP-1000 terminal servers when my (old) work were going to just toss
them out. Anybody have any experience with these?
Where I used to work, I took to calling ours the "Disability".
It earned the name.
LAT: pretty good
TCP/IP: would sometimes lose its configuration
SLIP/PPP: usable, if you're willing to give all your users
the "enable" password (we weren't)
At least that was my experience with one of them around 1992-1993.
Rumor was that there was a later firmware revision that addressed
some of the TCP/IP and PPP problems but it never made its way into
our units. The unit that was used primarily to hook a bunch of
terminals to a smaller bunch of VMS hosts with LAT just worked,
the one that we expected to do TCP/IP stuff was a real pain.
-Frank McConnell