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From: phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| braindamage terminals
Message-ID: <358@amd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:23:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 21:23:53 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 04:02:29 EDT
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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? 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?

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 Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554
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