From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Newsgroups: fa.info-terms Title: Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7875 Posted: Fri Jul 2 10:21:24 1982 Received: Sat Jul 3 01:57:20 1982 >From decvax!watmath!vlsi@Berkeley Fri Jul 2 10:19:24 1982 Argh! Arrogant Yankee! Did you not know about your friendly neighbour to the North? Volker-Craig is a Canadian terminal manufacturer in Waterloo, Ontario. It was just bought out by NABU, who is currently buying everything that Northern Telecom and Mitel haven't. The terminals work, are deadly simple internally, and are reasonably reliable. They may have funny cursur options (like all dumb terminals). I personally use one, here, and my complaints can be heard for several corridors; this is a great improvement over the users of the LA52s, whose complaints carry down the air shafts, and the screams from the IBM users (with those insane 3031 things), whose weeping and wailing can be heard for 2 Km. On a desirability scale of 1:10 (calibration- ASR33 is 1, Sun Terminal is 6, and Evans and Sutherland graphic display is 9), I rate them about 3, maybe 4. Yours from the Frozen North, Patrick Powell