From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Newsgroups: fa.info-terms Title: Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7870 Posted: Fri Jul 2 07:39:20 1982 Received: Sat Jul 3 01:51:42 1982 >From decvax!watmath!kgdykes@Berkeley Fri Jul 2 07:38:59 1982 Yes, i have heard of VC terminals THe University of Waterloo uses trillions of them! (in fact we have the very first 10 ever made about 10 yrs ago!) The 404 is a fairly dumb terminal, and considering the student abuse they get here, they are quite reliable The are manufactured by the Volker-Craig company of Waterloo,Ontario,Canada (recently bought out by Nabu of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada). Service is normally quite reasonable, but i dont know what the border-crossing implies. However, if you have local techinicians, Volker-Craig sells low-level hardware manuals (schematics, etc). Normal sale price of the 404 is about CDN $1000 in single quantities and depending on the options purchased (options include various interfaces such as rs232, current loop, etc, apl character sets, coloured screens and more) -Ken