From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms
Newsgroups: fa.info-terms
Title: 
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7877
Posted: Fri Jul  2 10:50:11 1982
Received: Sat Jul  3 02:01:34 1982

>From decvax!watmath!vlsi@Berkeley Fri Jul  2 10:51:21 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