Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!amd!phil From: phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| braindamage terminals Message-ID: <358@amd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:23:53 EDT Article-I.D.: amd.358 Posted: Tue Sep 25 21:23:53 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 04:02:29 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 21 Hey you digital idiots, why'd you design the Letterwriter 100 so you either can't read the current line or can't read any line but the current line? What is this stupid black cover that swivels into any position but a useful one? I got around the dam*ed black cover by cutting it off with a hacksaw but if DEC hadn't shipped it with my VAX I sure wouldn't have purchased it. "Each new model introduced since the LA36 teleprinter has been a strong demonstration of the market's commitment to us." Ha ha. Like the wonderful DECwriter IV which runs at a blazing 300 baud? I think there is a group of sadists at DEC which designs the worst terminals they can imagine and then forces everyone who buys a VAX to use these horrible products as a console. Why else would the DECwriter IV be slower than the DECwriter III unless they realized the III was too good a product and they had to degrade it? -- Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPA