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From: coffler@grok.DEC (Jeff Coffler)
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Subject: re: d|i|g|i|t|a|l| braindamage terinals
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 09:50:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 09:50:28 1984
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>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?

>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.

Hey, where I come from, I purchased some computers from DEC too.
If you buy a VAX with a Letterwriter 100, then use it!  Your company
had to sign the sales agreement to agree on equipment ordered.  If
you don't want the Letterwriter 100 as the console, DON'T BUY IT!

>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?

Use a tad of your intelligence here.  First, the DECwriter IV came out
quite some time ago.  Second, the DECwriter III, even today, is very
***EXPENSIVE***!!!  At the time, DECwriter IV gave the buyer a choice:
a high speed, high cost terminal, or a low speed, low cost terminal for
low volume printing use.  You have a problem with choices???