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From: broome@ucbvax.ARPA (Jonathan C. Broome)
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Subject: Re: Review of Wyse 50 Terminal
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 23:46:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 23:46:38 1984
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I also happen to be one of the people who *loves* the Wyse 50. especially
the 14" screen.  In addition, my Wyse cost nearly $200 less than comparable
models that I looked at.

A couple of comments on it:

	The switchable 80/132 columns is a nice feature, but when you have 132 
	columns on the screen readability deinitely suffers! (But the extra 52
	columns *can* be nice for status info if you can hack your program/debugger
	to trace there)

	I had developed a problem with a bad "p" key after about two months of
	constant use, but the local Wyse people took care of it quickly.

	I have had (and still have) problems with programs that address the cursor 
	quickly (as in several "high-speed" games) where an interrupt will cause
	the program to terminate but the cursor will jump around the screen from
	(for example) 1,1 to 10,40 to 22,60 and back again, occasionally causing
	my modem (Quibie Hayes clone) to hang up on me.

	Finally, I haven't been able to find any *good* documentation on the 
	escape codes (that you can use the lower status line as one piece 
	instead of separate key labels was news to me!!), but I guess that was
	to be expected...

But in all, the Wyse people appear to have done well...