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From: brahms@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Data General/One
Message-ID: <300@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 15:12:48 EST
Article-I.D.: spp2.300
Posted: Wed Dec  5 15:12:48 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 04:55:09 EST
References: <1835@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: brahms@spp2.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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Summary: 

>I'm surprised that nobody has commented on the Data General/One here.
>Perhaps nobody has seen it yet?  I did note that none of Byte's pictures
>were with the screen turned on (though there were a few in the DG ad
>in the front of the magazine), and that Byte said "until I could get a
>video monitor for it, I wouldn't buy it".
>
>What's the scoop?  Can you read the sucker all day or not?

I had a DG/One for a day to test it out.  In my office, with overhead
lighting, the screen is very hard to read.  The best lighting for it is to
have a light behind you.  I have heard, that they will have a different
screen out sometime in the middle of next year.

>I heard rumors that they're going to build in the 1200 baud modem (no
>big deal these days) and offer Unix (presumably with a hard disk) or some
>Uniclone.

Another annoying feature is its 300 baud internal modem.  Why they didn't
use a 1200 I'll never know.  Also, XTALK (the only vt-100 emulator that I
know about for the DG/One), is poor when it comes to emulating a vt-100.

Unix?  I doubt it.  If they added a hard disk, then they would have to add
one of the new small ones (the DG/1 uses two 3.5in drives).  Also, they
are running on an 80c88, therefore, if they brought one out, I would think
it would be Xenix.

If you have the money, I would go with a Grid Compass.  The screen is much
easier to read in any type of lighting.  The only problem, it is also a
lot more expensive.

			-- Brad Brahms
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	(The opinions above are my own, and may not reflect the opinions of
	 my employer.)