Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!broome From: broome@ucbvax.ARPA (Jonathan C. Broome) Newsgroups: net.info-terms Subject: Re: Review of Wyse 50 Terminal Message-ID: <3802@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 23:46:38 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3802 Posted: Thu Dec 13 23:46:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:34:43 EST References: <> <45@lanierrnd.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 27 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...